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Comment Re:Routing around it. (Score 1) 474

If your discussion can't take place without making someone feel bad, why should we allow it to take place? Not a politician or celebrity whose stepped into a debate, but someone who just happens to be overweight because they're undergoing chemotherapy for example.

And scream whatever amendment it is that jerks use to justify these acitons, I'm not a US citizen so I couldn't give less of a shit. I mean one of the amendments tells Americans to all shoot each other all the time - how's that been working out lately?

This whole idea that we'll have lost something as a society if we can't insult random innocent people is so retarded it hurts my head.

Comment Re:The Power of Standards (Score 1) 81

That's right, and if you multiply it by, say 100 million downloads, to keep it simple, then they have wasted about 3 years of time and 10 million dollars worth of disk space for no reason. It's likely to be an order of magnitude or even two higher than that over the lifetime of the product.

It's like saying that every time Office is slow or buggy then only a few minutes of time or pages of text are lost. If you multiply that by the amount of usage it's had in the last decade or two, the amount of lost productivity across every sector - government, education, finance, logistics... is huge.

We would all be driving nuclear powered hovercars today were it not for MS Office.

Comment Useless features (Score 1, Troll) 81

Yep, we haven't figured out how to allow a user to drag an Explorer window that's looking for something on a network, but we have built directly into our OS support for a third-party program to talk to fourth-party hardware.

We still haven't figured out a reliable algorithm that can draw things inside specified a rectangular region of the display, but you can run Android apps and have their GUIs splayed out across the display like a grisly sacrifice.

We still haven't figured out just how much we alienated our customer base by trying to force all computers to be tablets, but we are sure _this_ version of Windows is gonna be the one that everyone installs on their desktops.

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