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GuyThiebaut wrote: How about a wooden rabbit?[^]
...and now I know who will taunt them some more. Now remember, Your mother was a hamster, and your father semelt of elderberries.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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This time maybe we should fart in their general direction.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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CodeWraith wrote: traditional
How old are you?
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I'm in. I'm expert on operating explosives...
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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Sorry, but that is effectively a spam attack, because a large percentage of such a group would probably be of the "meh" opinion.
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Spam?
I'd call it a revolution.
And one that's well past time, at that.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Forogar wrote: ...um, I hesitate to use the word "attack" as this is not what I want to propose. "boycott".
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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"boycott" - a good word but too many negative connotations.
"protest" - is not good in the same way.
"lobby" - feels too political and therefore negative also.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Maybe we should impose sanctions?
Anyhow, it worked before. After enough complaints, Clippy was removed
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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But not tattooed on every square centimetre of the skin of the guy who thought him up, then each centimetre slowly penetrated with a genuine (but red hot) paperclip until he died screaming in agony.
Which is what I asked for.
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Hi, it looks like you're writing a letter
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Obligatory Clippy[^]
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Sounds nice in theory.
The only problem is that, although there might be 14 million of us, getting even 14 developers to agree on what is top priority is a nigh-on impossible task.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: getting even 14 developers to agree on what is top priority is a nigh-on impossible task.
No problem. Bacon, anyone?
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Correction... we are nearly 14 million users...
Maybe 1 million developers?
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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You've got buckleys, apathy will kill the idea before it gets going.
However you might try something like the weekly survey, The weekly BUG, but your numbers are going to be insignificant.
Propose a bug, get votes on board, have CP present it to MS. I'm pretty sure CM has a good pipeline into MS by now.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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You sound like someone with stockholm syndrome.
Instead of arranging petitions to force a vendor to change, why not simply switch to something else?
This is literally how it works with everything else - if a product sucks consumers move to another product.
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Precisely. However, who makes better Products than Microsoft?
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Quote: However, who makes better Products than Microsoft?
Just about everyone, IME. In fact, some of Microsoft's products were literally so bad that they killed them off in favour of open source alternatives.
TFVC was such a dumpster-fire that MS bought github instead of trying to fix it.
Windows Mobile was so bad that it caused the largest phone manufacturer to become the smallest phone manufacturer in less than 18 months.
Windows CE was such a pain to use that every single embedded device OS uses something else (more often than not, Linux). Right now I think it might even be officially dead from Microsoft.
Their edge browser engine was so unfixable they simply replaced it with one they didn't write.
Their OS, in general, is so unsuitable for cloud computing that, right now, there are more Linux instances on Azure than their are Windows instances on Azure.
So, yeah, other than a few outliers that really are humdingers in terms of revenue, the majority of their stuff is simply ignored by the world.
C# appears to be one thing they got correct. Lets see how long it is before a new boss comes in to MS and f***s it up.
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Member 13301679 wrote: Just about everyone Nobody makes a better office suite nor a better OS. Development tools by Microsoft far outshine anyone else.
They pioneered touch-screen.
Version Control in TFS is better than the others.
Your opinion is different than mine but the fact that they still run the software speaks volumes.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Well, you asked who makes better software than Microsoft, and I gave a few examples of the top of my head where they make poor software. I also said they have a few humdinger cash-cows (i.e. Windows, Office, Xbox and Azure).
Even their OS is limited to desktop use almost exclusively, and that's because that's what came with the PC or that's what corporates buy.
When users where given a choice to buy devices with or without Windows on them, they rejected Windows almost universally. On the desktop users get no choice. Everywhere else they chose something other than Windows.
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Member 13301679 wrote: they rejected Windows almost universally. I bought a PC and installed Linux instead of Windows once. Worst computer mistake I've ever made. Windows is so many times better than Linux.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Quote: Windows is so many times better than Linux.
Is that why Linux is preferred over Windows for supercomputers?
Or for large HA clusters?
Or small clusters?
Or servers?
Or high-resource workstations?
Or tablets?
Or phones?
Or credit-card terminals?
Or car on-board computers?
Or car infotainment systems?
Or industrial control systems?
Or IoT devices?
For the desktop, Windows is ubiquituous. Outside of that single, narrow space Linux has been chosen time and time again by industry over Windows offerings.
Now, I've written software for Supercomputing clusters, for HA clusters, for phones, credit-card terminals, Industrial systems, IoT devices, factories, and even munitions control systems, and all of those systems run Linux, not Windows.
On the desktop, the OS is allowed to be unreliable so Windows is great! When the software is controlling explosives, any failure mode is unacceptable and so Windows is very rarely seen.
Now I'm glad that Windows works for you, and you seem to quite like it, but in pure numbers alone the number of Windows installations is a fraction of the number of Linux systems out there. Android (running on Linux, natch) alone has roughly twice as many users as MS Windows globally.
Once Windows hits the numbers that Linux has, then we can actually compare them - now there is no point because Windows usage is so tiny compared to Linux usage.
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Remember, people like Code Project members made Windows 10 happen.
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