Most non-MS software is even worse than Microsoft software, to be blunt. Except a few very broad-based open source projects (Linux, Apache, PostgreSQL, X.org, GNOME and/or KDE, and the like). I get the feeling that you don't understand why this is.. and I'm sorry if I implied that only Microsoft writes bad software because they can.Almost all proprietary software is shit for the same reason Microsoft's software is shit - the people who create it have a monopoly on its creation. These broad-based open source projects, as you call them, have that one thing that proprietary software doesn't - competition. If I write some shit code for an open source project, chances are the devs won't accept it. It's not that they don't appreciate my contribution, it's that there are probably a half dozen other people who are more than happy to write something better, or improve on what I have written.That's what copyright is, it's this government issued monopoly on copying, and the result of the government issuing monopolies should be pretty obvious by now: poor quality for high prices.Parent SharetwitterfacebookRe: (Score:3, Interesting)by GeffDE ( 712146 ) writes: I agree with you. I can understand people wanting to throw whatever they want into a computer (or even building their own components or whatever), but what I was saying is that people want choices but how many do they actually want? Macs are customizable to an extent that captures some majority of the market. It's a tradeoff. You can't really have both exceptional quality and exceptional support. Apple has chosen to optimize for quality while Microsoft (to me) has tried to do both and has ended up mediRe:I dont *hate* Microsoft..... (Score:4, Interesting)by stevesliva ( 648202 ) writes: on Thursday December 14, 2006 @11:58PM (#17250194)Journal Where I really started getting disgusted with their business was after I saw company after company run out of business due to business practices that bordered on illegal and in some cases blatantly crossed the legal line. As an MS intern in the summer of 2001 I had the chance to attend the Windows XP RTM celebration, and the company meeting at SafeCo field. The company meeting was especially interesting. My memories of it are fading, but IIRC, before all the individual product groups made their presentations Ballmer had to get up and say a few words about the ongoing monopoly trial, and how they were getting unduly harassed by the feds. That was followed up by a demo of the brand-new XBox, which was going to crush Sony and Nintendo. And a presentation about CE, and how that was going to crush Palm. And discussion about how Outlook had just surpassed Notes. Etc etc. You just got the impression that every business they delved into they intended to crush the competition. Which is really the rational thing for a business to do-- and individually can you really fault each team for trying to outdo the competition? But on the other hand, you saw them throwing more money than innovation at getting a foothold in the console market, and using the Windows brand to purchase credibility the Palm market. So do I hate Microsoft? No, because I try not to be a hypocrite. I believe they can dominate markets without even trying, and certainly by being only adequate. In that position, what do you do? Intentionally fuck up? Vista will show that the fuckup threshold is effectively impossible to surmount. But I dislike Microsoft. Microsoft is too powerful. The prevailing attitude these days amongst IT buyers must be "You don't get fired for buying Microsoft" ala IBM. I believe that nothing will break Microsoft's stranglehold on non-distributed computing. The only solution to that is to make that stranglehold irrelevant. But man do I HATE it when they kill progress like with MSIE. Thank god for Firefox. Maybe they will kill progress with overboard DRM in Vista. That doesn't mean Vista will fail any more than MSIE failed to maintain 80% of the browser market...Parent SharetwitterfacebookRe: (Score:3, Interesting)by DarkMantle ( 784415 ) writes: I think the parent hit it on the head. However, I would like to add to it. So do comments below like MacOS X running on limited hardware
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They created a platform that commoditized the underlying computer and jump-started a PC revolution. An independent developer can reach a market of half a billion desktops with a single binary. How neat is that?A developer can also reach many, many operating systems and hardware, including Mac OS X (and even Windows if you add cygwin), by writing POSIX compatable software, with one set of source code. (And even binaries to some extent - many Unixes have binary compatability with negligable overhead, especially with Linux.) I find that much more exciting than Microsoft's monopoly-won success. Why? Because POSIX is a *standard*, even one mandated by the government for purchasing (hence WinNT comes with a horribly crippled POSIX mode from MS included - this can be remedied though by third party products such as the open-source Cygwin). Because of these standards, your software *can* reach a lot of people - internet servers, which are accessed by a billion both users and non-users of Windows.What Microsoft did with PC hardware is similiar to what open source does with essential digital infrastructure: it commoditizes them by becoming the one standard reference implementation.No, it was a function of IBM making their PC out of off-the-shelf parts and picking Microsoft to make an OS (MS-DOS) after the CEO of Digital Research (CP/M), their first choice (since it was a multi-platform business operating system de-facto standard at the time), didn't arrive at a meeting; legend has it while piloting his private airplane.Microsoft told IBM that they had an operating system ready for the 8088, so not to worry. They actually didn't, they bought one from a local business for a few tens of thousands of dollars, then a few years later sued them out of existence for trying to ad multitasking when Microsoft had other plans for MS-DOS at the time.
Amir Maziar, a member of the Faculty of Theoretical Sciences at the Tehran University of Arts, published his suspension letter on February 7 and wrote that Kurosh Golnari, another member of the faculty of the same university, also received a similar letter.Maziar added that some of his colleagues are under pressure to sign letters condemning the protesters, "which has happened at universities and other educational institutions as well."According to Maziar, pressure on professors continues in other ways as well, including instances of forced retirement.Anger over Amini's death on September 16 has prompted thousands of Iranians to take to the streets to demand more freedoms and women's rights.Numerous protests have been held at universities, particularly in Tehran, where many students have refused to attend classes. Protesting students have chanted "woman, life, freedom" and "death to the dictator" at the rallies. Some female students have removed and burned their head scarves.In recent months, the Tehran University of Arts has been a center of creative performances in support of the protests in Iran, including the erection of symbolic tombstones on the university campus in memory of protesters killed by the security forces, which has gone viral on social media.In most of the protests, students have asked professors to support them, and some university professors and lecturers have expressed solidarity with the protesters.Universities and students have long been at the forefront of the struggle for greater social and political freedoms in Iran. In 1999, students protested the closure of a reformist daily, prompting a brutal raid on the dorms of Tehran University that left one student dead.Over the years, the authorities have arrested student activists and leaders, sentencing them to prison and banning them from studying.The activist HRANA news agency said that, as of January 26, at least 700 university students had been arrested during the recent unrest.Many have faced sentences such as imprisonment, flogging, and dozens of students have been expelled from universities or suspended from their studies, as security forces try to stifle widespread dissent.
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Two players must join the game. First, they choose the petals they want to have (including all petals that are in the game). They can put them in 8 petal slots and in inventory. They have 1 minute for it. After 1 minute all unfilled slots will be filled with basics. When players are ready, they spawn on a little map with dark blue background but no mobs. The goal is to kill the another player.
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This article is more acurate if you call it 'Downsides in every country in the world, also Portugal, for a Karen's of the world', for the rest it is not that bad, if you have any skills adopting and making things work for you, you are fine.Lets be real here. What would normal people think if I would tell them that my reasons for not moving to Portugal were dogs and cold ocean water. Well, I think they would think that I am ridiculous idiot.So that whole article is a joke to me. There are few points that are worth mentioning but other than that it is a joke.Don't get me wrong. I understand that this is part of living in there, but is it really a downside worth mentioning or is it just life, that is more-less same everywhere ... You can pick any place in the world, there is same problems and few other problems Potugal don't have and few less problems Portugal have. If there was a perfect world, then it would excist until people discover that and soon it will be the same as the rest of the world. 2ff7e9595c
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