Yeah, fuck them! How dare they try to protect themselves from theft on PRIVATE property that no one is REQUIRED to go to. Fuck them indeed.
The MPAA does not own the copyrights. (Copyright misappropriation is also not theft). The MPAA also does not own the theatres. So they don't really get to set the rules as they are also not the government.
The majority of us did not have money to spare for Macs. I have no doubt that they were the best personal computers around. I used them.
For less expensive computers, there was the BASIC interpreter. Not as WYSIWYG or simple and Beginners need to think when coding, even at that level. It also had the advantage of being close to a standard untill MS teurned it into QBasic then dumped it.
BASIC is what we need again but standardised and improved a lot.
http://freebasic.net/
Official Website
FreeBASIC is a free/open source (GPL), BASIC compiler for Microsoft Windows, DOS and Linux.
When used in its "QB" language mode, FreeBASIC provides a high level of support for programs written for QuickBASIC. Many programs written for QuickBASIC will compile and run in this mode with no changes needed. However, for compilation in the FreeBASIC default language mode, most substantial programs will require changes.
FreeBASIC is a self-hosting compiler which makes use of the GNU binutils programming tools as backends and can produce console, graphical/GUI executables, dynamic and static libraries. FreeBASIC fully supports the use of C libraries and has partial C++ library support. This lets programmers use and create libraries for C and many other languages. It supports a C style preprocessor, capable of multiline macros, conditional compiling and file inclusion.
FreeBASIC has been rated close in speed with mainstream tools, such as GCC.
Put your "new atheism" away and grant them equal respect;.
Ok. So what respect do they grant others? They condemn them to eternal suffering for having the audacity to not believe as they are told to believe without evidence. They assume that they are superior due to their faith and any unbeliever or other believer is automatically wrong. I don't think they want to be treated that badly. I've had a bible thumper tell me that I should be burnt at the stake. Don't think he wants that for himself though.
They want to be treated better than they want to treat others. Doesn't work well.
Just because they are religious doesn't entitle them to respect. Otherwise they would respect the Taliban and honour killing and genital mutilation etc etc.
They did need a design overhaul. Windows Phone with it's tile layout was way superior.
That of course is why Windows Phone is the market dominator right?
So it's Leaded Gasoline's fault that I download pirated movies? That's a relief.
No. It is the fault of leaded gasoline that your parents named you Anonymous Coward.
NOT in a corp environment, they don't! 2 or 3 yrs, tops. corps do a 'refresh' and buy new gear (cheaper than supporting older stuff).
Really? I'm glad that you have made it so clear that the Windows 98 machines that I see at work are not really there because the custom apps that would be difficult/impossible to be updated to more modern Windows are not a problem. The other machines that I see with Win XP clearly don't exist either only the very few Win 7 machines exist. Glad you cleared that up.
Trusted computing was always destined to be vaporware. Nobody wanted it.
Untrue. The big media companies want it so they can controll your media use. Consider that MS got a patent which would allow them to tell how many people (in the home) viewed a movie at once. The big media companies would just LOVE to charge you each time an individual "consumes" their product. No more copy ownership just a constant income source to the media corp.
Corporate Big Brother is just as dangerous as the government form.
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