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That was a lot of work for a punchline! Boy, I've cut down a lot on what news I follow over the years. i think I may cut out a whole bunch of tech news. These articles about new devices and new features and stuff are really making me.
So all this news about windows 10. ok. All they've really done is change the start button so it's now even bigger with tiles showing. One programmer. One day. Let's say 10 programmers, one month.
What else? built-in multiple desktops? ok. windows users have had third party tools forever, so who really cares? I can't criticize it too much, of course, they are just addressing the (quite stupid) complaints of users who say windows has nothing while apple has all these great software built into the OS.
This move away from the windows third-party tools is still troubling to me. It's making me keep an eye out on Linux.-superboyac (October 01, 2014, 05:07 PM)
This is hilarious...
http://www.infoworld...s-to-windows-10.html-wraith808 (October 01, 2014, 11:21 AM)
Please note that that was an April Fool's article from 2013!
They thought they were being silly, but they were prophetic!-Deozaan (October 01, 2014, 01:44 PM)
Why not jump to LibreOffice which is much better and doesn't rely on Java and is actively being developed?-Carol Haynes (October 01, 2014, 10:59 AM)
I still want to know why people actually continue to pay for Office when OpenOffice does the same job and costs nothing.-SeraphimLabs (September 30, 2014, 04:53 PM)
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Given fair warning, perhaps ... But life seldom happens on schedule.-Stoic Joker (September 30, 2014, 12:07 PM)
Sure it sounds like a great deal, but when the subscription runs out because hard times have hit, and the software shuts down. What do you open the files with? And what happens to all your stuff that is stored in the cloud?-Stoic Joker (September 30, 2014, 11:37 AM)
As goes the Ala Carte scourge ... It's only a dollar..!
This is a dollar, that is a dollar...the other thing(s) are only a dollar. And then all of a suddenly your stuck with close to a car payment - For :)ing Life - hoping that you don't get into a bind because then all your stuff is (gone) being held hostage by a faceless corporation that wants it monthly feeding - plus late fee$...
Windows OS goes monthly ...(today's letters become F and O)... Stoic Joker Goes Linux.-Stoic Joker (September 30, 2014, 07:46 AM)
Monthly for an OS? More chance of me winning a dance contest than that succeeding-rgdot (September 29, 2014, 06:20 PM)
There are some slight differences between property law and copyright law.
When you own a house, that's your house, the public isn't involved in the process(buying, renting, selling) at any point. Copyright however was meant to be a deal between the creator and the public("We'll give you exclusive rights and related legal rights for a limited time to your works, so you can be incentivized to create more, but in exchange once that limited time is over with the rights to it go to the public so people can build off of what you've created"), it was never meant to be a welfare system for heirs and 'estates' like actual property.
This is one of the big reasons I believe that any copyright term lasting past death(at most) is excessive, the creator at that point is dead, they're not being given incentive to create squat, so at that point it's time for the public to receive their half of the deal.
Also, I've seen this mentioned before when the subject has come up, but if you believe that copyright should be treated the same as any other property, do you believe that is should ever go to the public domain? You don't have to give your car up after X number of years, nor your house, if copyright is just another category of property, why the difference?
As well, if a copyright is a property like any other, well, you pay taxes on your house and car based upon their worth, clearly paying taxes on a copyright is only fair as well. I'm sure the likes of Disney would love that.
Going on a tangent:
I, as many others, said early on that if G+ is aiming to reach Facebook level activity within a handful of years it is being delusional.
But it is by no means empty or deserted. 'Sharing with family' type updates is probably what keeps Facebook going more than any other. G+ was never going to just capture that market.-rgdot (September 27, 2014, 12:10 PM)