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Comment Re:It is a cost issue. (Score 1) 296

Progress is sometimes a strange thing. I was able to run Office 4.2 with, Excel, Access, Word and PowerPoint in Win 98 on a Intel 486 DX2-66 machine with 8 MB of memory and a 400 MB hard disk back in the day. What do I have now? AMD Ryzen with 32 MB of memory a 1 GB SSD and 5 GB hard disk with a 12 GB 3060 video card. What do I run on this hardware? Windows OS and MS Office with, you guessed it, Excel, Access, Word and PowerPoint and VS including SQL Server. Hmmm.

Comment Re:YouTube is toxic for creators (Score 1) 22

Yeah, just how many creators have been cancelled, shadow banned, black holed and demonetized? The creatives have or are leaving for greener pastures, Rumble anyone? YouTube is now theirTube and has become a very bad imitation of cable TV. There is between zero and nil chance that I will be paying YouTube to watch Mainstream channel crap despite all the desperate importuning by YouTube whenever I go to my favorite cat video channel (Paws Planet). I don't even get notified when new videos are made by my subscribed channels what a joke. Screw them.

Comment Re:Competition will kill Chinese firms (Score 1) 131

The Chinese Government has Windows source code so whats the probability that Russia does as well? https://www.infoworld.com/arti.... I assume that Russia has the source code for Windows and probably SQL Server and who know what else. Oh wait, here is a link of some interest https://www.govtech.com/securi... A quote from the above document "Russia is the first country to sign on to Microsoft's "Government Security Program" -- which allows countries to review the secret code and evaluate the software's ability to withstand attacks. " I presume that the program has continued, if not, then I am sure that a fat fingered "Chinese hacker" may "accidentally" forward such code to a "Russian hacker" or some such, after all we all know that accidents happen, right?

Comment Re:Fuck off Slashdot (Score 1) 116

These climate alarmists could not predict the weather in their own home time accurately for the next 10 days, let alone tell us what world wide weather will do over the next year, 10 years or 100 years. There are many commercial entities selling weather forecasts to airlines, shipping companies, farmers, yachtsmen, hunters, surfers etc. etc. and their models all give different predictions once the forecasting horizon moves more than a very few days/weeks into the future and those entities are paid plenty for their advice. Academics and their computer models are not subject to any market pressure to be accurate the way the commercial guys are and basically if put to the test of making actual, usable forecasts, that are relied upon in the real world would no doubt fail dismally. If their models don't fail then those models are worth a crap ton of money in the forecasting market so get to it boys otherwise shut-up with the BS about global climate catastrophe already, please.

Comment Re:Glad I stopped using Windows (Score 1) 207

I also moved and made it painless by moving all of my applications over to open source before the move. Eclipse, LAMP, Filezilla, Open Office, Thunderbird, Firefox, Chrome, VLC, etc. the only thing I still like to use is Photoshop 6, yes Photoshop 6, as its on a disk that I actually paid for more years ago than I care to remember. When I finally moved over to Linux pretty much everything I previously used stayed the same. I have Windows 10 on a laptop and it sounds like that will be the last version of windows I will ever use. Considering I have used MS since the days of Dos 6 and MS Windows 3.1.1 with Office 4.2 and Visual Studio running on it and have paid a small fortune to MS over the decades since then its bittersweet but they are not seeing any more or my money.

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