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Comment Re:Why not Redstone Computing? (Score 1) 39

Yep! We can then add a counter to limit the output so that we can change text color after ten lines. Learning to program should start with logic and developing the ability to think through problems. The language is secondary. They certainly should stick with actually typing statements. The further away they are from this, the more drag and drop the the tool.

Comment Re: Exactly. Albums are sequenced thing. (Score 1) 242

I discovered Stick Figure through a POV mountain biking video on YouTube and now own all of their seven or eight albums as CDs. It is good stuff. Slightly Stoopid is another good one.

I still only buy CDs. Despite having 800 or more and mostly listening to these as MP3s, I also listen to and discover music styles and artists through Pandora on a routine basis. Many of these artists are not new. One can discover much by looking to the past.

Comment Please let the "free" business model die! (Score 1) 139

Hello software vendors. Please identify a fair price and again let us pay money for your wares. I am too tired of your ad and data harvesting free and freemium models. I'll even also pay for the pirates and give you more money in five years just so you can keep the shit secure and maintained. Just don't include cloud tie-ins. Here's another thing! Don't try to pass off a poor performing web app as a natively built desktop application because you cannot manage two tracks or do more than plug together prebuilt components like they are Lego blocks.

Comment Re:Priorities (Score 1) 95

Yes, there are multiple teams, and there is just one company. Microsoft should be much more invested in the core OS for the sake of security and stability and not yet more eye candy changes. They probably introduce new exploitable and crash triggering "features" as they keep changing the UI. Their dev resources should retasked. They should have been touting Windows 11 for a long list of bugs and vulnerabilities addressed and not a centered taskbar and new paint job.

Comment Re: Advertising... why did it have to be advertisi (Score 1) 54

I long for a broad move away from the free ad and data selling and freemium business models to one where companies simply price the widgets and services offered in line with their costs and profit goals. If all just did this, people would again pay with money, and we'd not have the downsides of ads and privacy concerns. Plus, the steps that people continue to employ such as ad blocking will not lead to yet more company failures. Just charge me the true cost and sell something worth paying for. I imagine that regulatory bodies would have to disallow the data collection, mining, and selling.

Comment No, not everyone (Score 1) 264

I'm a Lefty and would love to see the U.S. make a big shift to the left economically. And socially.! Despite this, I do believe that money should only be given to those that don't normally have the means to live in comfort from week to week. People with the luxury of significant savings and fat wallets will weather this shutdown and forthcoming slump just fine as long as they don't live irresponsibly. These folks should not get money at least not out of the gate.

In a similar vein, a UBI program should not be flat and payable to all income classes if ever one is implemented. All such a program would do is shift the scale between the extremes upward. The income discrepancies would remain. The lack of sufficient buying power had by the have-nots and have-too-littles would as well.

Comment Re:Windows shouldn't be a service! (Score 1) 200

There were EULAs before the practice of displaying these on-screen during installation and/or first use. The install media and, often, a book of some degree were shrinkwrapped. Adhered to this would be the EULA. Breaking the seal meant acceptance. For preloaded software installed by OEMs, there were [always] EULAs somewhere a!ong the package contents, and use of the purchased computer implied acceptance.

Comment Re:Well it's your own fault. (Score 1) 210

A downside in this context to mapping your special folders to non standard paths is that these paths become the special folders. I have long done this and do so with a separate partition. I suspect the apparent bug would have killed the data just the same regardless of where "Documents/My Documents/Personal" points, because it isn't the path tbhat is targeted; it is the alias that represents what is in use for the logged-in user.

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