Comment Re:I'm conflicted (Score 1) 980
perhaps threatening Apple with some-sort of discontinuing of it's products on Macs may knock some sense into Apple
You obviously don't run a business
perhaps threatening Apple with some-sort of discontinuing of it's products on Macs may knock some sense into Apple
You obviously don't run a business
BASIC is still a great learning platform. As a whippersnapper back in '78 I learned the pain of GOTO and moved to GOSUB. Through my own ineptitude I was jarred into functional/procedural programming. Moving to objects after that was a natural progression. Sink or swim.
go to wales, you can have violent bestiality with a miner
it's called google
I mean, it isn't easy to get a hangover from beer.
explain that to my splitting headache!
What Calinous is saying (pretty obviously) is that individuals can not buy nuclear/hydro power plants, but they can buy solar panels. More so if they're cheaper.
This is
Not really anologous to what TFA is dealing with
You did notice his user name didn't you?
I would chill out about stuff that we are helpless to do anything about (unless you are going to stop using the Internet).
And this is precisely how liberty is lost.
Bugger that! Think of all the abysmal 1980s music you skipped over. A Flock of seagulls, Wham, Adam and The Ants, Human League, Culture Club etc.
And Lady GaGa is an improvement?
Coffee, nostrils, keyboard.
wow - who GNU?
Hell I could get us to Mars, if I had the budget to hire the right people.
"Apple seems to think their copyright monopoly gives them a monopoly over their commodity hardware business too"
They write software for their hardware. Are you saying that every hardware manufacturer should allow any other to use its software for their own hardware?
People screaming monopoly are morons!
To write good code is a worthy challenge, and a source of civilized delight. -- stolen and paraphrased from William Safire
