Well by that measure I'm not married either. Heterosexual atheist couple, non-religious ceremony. That said, I take the vows damn seriously, and I consider them sacred. Just not blessed by his noodly appendage.
In the streets? Maybe not. But there are PLENTY of employable (and even employed) people in the US who don't have enough food to feed themselves of their families. The numbers are truly staggering - literally millions of Americans can't afford to eat as much as they need to. That's why places like community foodbanks need to exist. Of course because these people aren't out on the street begging people like you don't think they exist - but they do. I've volunteered at local foodbanks in my area and the stories are heartbreaking - these are normal, decent hardworking people who through a series of events find themselves without the money they need and without help from the state or anyone else, and have to rely on charity. It's an absolute embarrassment to this country and something we should all be utterly ashamed of.
Fair enough, I clearly misunderstood your post. Your use of that phrase made me assume you believed it had some accuracy. That said, all three of your examples of things which would "make" you use Windows are also available on OSX
What I think really pushes people towards Microsoft who don't have a strong opinion (and everyone on Slashdot does have a strong opinion, one way or the other!) is the price and availability of hardware bundled with Windows vs that bundled with OSX or something else. The vast majority of regular consumers go buy a laptop based on their budget, what color it is and what the sales person in Best Buy recommends. Statistically it will probably come with Windows and they'll probably never change it because they just don't care that much.
It's been said, people use iOS and OSX because they *want* to. People use Windows because they *have* to.
And like all generalizations, it's a gross oversimplification (to the point of just being wrong). On the desktop I use Windows because I want to - it's not perfect but out of the available options it's the one I prefer. For mobile I use iOS because I want to, again it's not perfect but overall it's my preference (Win Phone 7 is a very close second and is certainly on my radar). On the server I'd never run anything except Linux.
Don't fall into the trap of assuming everyone's wants and needs are the same as yours
Why do you think that all large corps have these kind of attitudes? I work for a large multinational, you've heard of us - I'm a software dev team lead. We totally encourage people to take their vacations - we actually have policies in place to stop people skipping them.
It's good for the employees and good for the company too. We work hard to hire the best people (it's certainly not easy) and the last thing we want is to burn them out or have them make mistakes because they're overtired. On the other hand, people get sick and people quit. It's important for us to make sure our teams still function without the key players, and vacations are a great way of figuring out if someone has unique knowledge or experience they should share more broadly in case they have to be out unexpectedly.
Yeah, good luck getting any promotions, raises, or any kind of a career working 15 mins a day. Or for that matter by treating your employer like that. Guess what - employment is a two way street. If you hate your employer so much that you are just looking for ways of slacking off why are you even working there? They should treat you with respect and you them.
Bottom line - you should enjoy your work, and workplace, if not you're wasting your life.
I'm just pointing out that if they'd taken one or two more sentences to precisely describe it, nobody would be in any doubt. So instead of looking at the law, they're looking at federalist papers and such that only represents the opinions of some of the founders, not something actually agreed on and passed as law.
I agree with your points - but it raises further questions for me.
Why are the founders' opinions so important? Why do we spend so much time, effort and money arguing about what some people thought about something in the past rather than deciding what is the correct decision for today, in our society?
As someone who moved to the US from a country without a formal written constitution I find the obsession with it's minutiae somewhat baffling - it's treated the same way as the Bible, as some kind of holy truth handed down from a divine being. In fact it's just a bunch of opinions of some people who happened to be in charge of the country a bunch of years ago. Those opinions could be irrelevant to today's USA, they could even be wrong (*gasp*) and might even have been wrong back then! Why we give those opinions more weight than our own (and those of the leaders we actually elected) is a bit of a mystery to me.
This isn't to say I disagree with having an enshrined set of rights and principles for government, I actually think it's a good thing. But if something in it is ambiguous or unclear (or simply outdated) it seems to me far more sensible to just decide how it should be rewritten (starting from a clean slate) than try to guess what the person who originally wrote it meant - it really doesn't matter.
A few cartoons, 1 heavy cg movie about blue people, and a bunch of schlock that looks like garbage because the 3d was faked in
So what have you watched apart from the Smurfs movie?
I hardly watch TV anyway
So this isn't for you, move along. A lot of people do watch TV though, and so some of these advances might be interesting for them. Speaking for myself, I consider HD essential and have done so for years. 3D is another matter, no real interest at this point (mainly because of the glasses and angle of view) but we'll see what comes along tech wise.
Sometimes, what we have is good enough.
And sometimes what's good enough for one person isn't for another.
1. Outlook does autocomplete of addresses - has done for years.
2. Undo cannot be provided by the OS because the concept of application state (and what constitutes a previous state, and how to revert to it) is private and specific to each application.
3. Not sure what your comment is re: fonts, but certainly in Windows every application has access to the same set of system wide fonts. Word doesn't have it's own fonts (although it does have own styles, which are different and by necessity Word specific).
The next person to mention spaghetti stacks to me is going to have his head knocked off. -- Bill Conrad