It is a bunch of legacy cruft piled on compatibility and emulation layers. I have created a kernal so small and so efficient that it can fit in the nostril of a piglet while still supporting full IPv6 and Perl. Furthermore why are all Windows users cock-sucking satan worshippers? There is something wrong with a culture that worships evil mastermind billionaires. Something seriously wrong that requires some good old fashioned sunshine and country fresh air and fried chicken.
People just wanted an OS that was popular so that most applications would run on it. Microsoft was either lucky or clever enough to be in the right place at the right time. Office was probably the biggest factor in Windows' success.
>>7 Office was probably the biggest factor in Windows' success.
I would argue games were more important. I remember buying DOS (and later Windows) pretty much just for the games, and I am sure many other people did the same. Look at how much effort Microsoft put into pushing DirectX onto developers, and look at how well it has paid off.
Though Microsoft really did luck out with Office. It pretty much single-handedly made Windows the standard operating system for business.
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Anonymous2011-09-29 17:40
What I don't understand is how Scarlett Johansson has the most amazing breasts in the world until nude photos of her are leaked. Now they're all small and shit. Same thing happened with Christina Ricci. She decides to do a nude scene in Black Snake Moan but becomes anorexic first. Shit is so not cash, /b/ro.
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Anonymous2011-09-29 17:41
What I don't understand is how Scarlett Johansson has the most amazing breasts in the world until nude photos of her are leaked. Now they're all small and shit. Same thing happened with Christina Ricci. She decides to do a nude scene in Black Snake Moan but becomes anorexic first. Shit is so not cash, /b/ro.
What I don't understand is how Scarlett Johansson has the most amazing breasts in the world until nude photos of her are leaked. Now they're all small and shit. Same thing happened with Christina Ricci. She decides to do a nude scene in Black Snake Moan but becomes anorexic first. Shit is so not cash, /b/ro.
Have any of you seen how Windows 8 is suppose to work? They're dumping .NET for COM on the Desktop... then they're going to run that shitty "main menu" mostly out of HTML & Javascript. Then dropping all the other .NET's for version 4.5 from windows 8 on out. (At least this is what Microsoft claimed at BUILD)
Why would you spend all that time telling people COM is shitty just to push .NET on people... then turn right back around and use COM???
MS gets nothing from the gaming industry, in fact most gamers use Windows Pirate Edition.
Workplaces on the other hand get audited; they need licensed copies of the OS and of Office. That is where MS gets all its billions from, not gamers.
MS doesn't give two shits about vidja gamen.
Microsoft pretty much owns the market because of it's simplicity and compatibility with almost every type of hardware and software out there, even the stingiest jew in the world could make himself a custom build, and windows will still work on it.
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Anonymous2011-09-30 2:23
>>22 Businesses on the other hand are subject to audits and have to licenses for both the OS and Office.
What if I use bitcoin for transaction, instead of evil jewish banking system? How can they audit me then?
>>29 Bitcoins aren't anonymous. Transactions can be traced.
They're pseudonymous as long as you don't connect them to the outside world. They can be anonymized, the same way you can anonymize internet traffic (onion routing, mixing, pools) and there are multiple implementations of this (since bitcoing is easy to automate). Anarchy cannot work with population sizes larger than Dunbar's number.
Depends on what kind. I don't think it's very sustainable/stable in our current state of existence (physical human beings), but it might be inevitable 50+ years if we finally fix some of our issues (substrate independent minds would be ideal (coercing becomes impossible, everyone is easily backed up/can't be killed = laws are no longer enforceable/only software/hardware "laws" are (same as physical law), only mutually beneficial contracts would work), but molecular nanotechnology gets you there quite as easily, just not as pleasantly (people can still do nasty things to each other, but since it would be postscarcity, the need for centralization decreases considerably up to the point where it's no longer needed, however I still expect people to form groups where beneficial)).
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Anonymous2011-09-30 6:22
>>29 Anarchy cannot work with population sizes larger than Dunbar's number.
There can still be anarchy between organizations of people, each consisting of Dunbar Number of people.
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For example, have you tried to picture what a posthuman society would look like? It seems to me that it would only work as a form of anarchy as nobody can coerce anyone anymore (nor harm in any physical way). Only mutually beneficial endeavours would exist (such as people teaming to work on some software or hardware project, collecting resources, or just creating art).
At a minimum I take a posthuman society to mean one where minds are ran as software (in specialized or general purpose hardware), and such society might have molecular nanotechnology for atom-scale automated manufacturing, but this is not absolutely required (although costs would be quite high without it).
A post-scarcity society would be one where automated manufacturing is commonplace (thus making software=hardware, except for energy/matter cost), but where mind-as-software is not the primary mode of existence for a person (still mostly human wetware). In the post-scarcity case, anarchy is inevitable as everything except matter and energy becomes de-facto public goods (and you can re-use matter and energy costs might be manageable for the individual to shoulder, or at least for a collective endeavour only meant for generating such energy).
However, the main problem with anarchy is that it's unstable when poked with a sharp stick - it can be destabilized by violent groups who think something else than you. Of course, you can't really put the genie back in the bottle once true molecular assemblers become commonplace, but physical warfare is possible and even greatly enhanced by such automatic manufacturing capabilities, hence you're stuck with something unstable and possibly painful for the parties involved (not as painful as 1984-style scenario where the state runs state-wide panopticon which becomes easy to implement given the hardware advances assumed in this example).
The only way to truly stabilize such physical anarchies is to make it very difficult to almost impossible to physically coerce or harm anyone, but to do that, you'd need to transition into a posthuman society where mind is ran as software and mind state backups are distributed across a wide network with a well-thought out design (think p2p like, but distributed across wider spaces, such as the solar system). In such a scenario, it becomes literally impossible for any laws to be enforced, except laws that people choose as a protocol between each other and to which they consciously ascribe and follow (not being born or forced into). Such laws could make sense as far as entering into cooperative endeavours/projects as well as finding a common ground for communication (think RFCs), but such laws would be more similar to our current TCP/IP stack or common file formats than legal law.
>At a minimum I take a posthuman society to mean one where minds are ran as software
eh, people who dream of minds run as software don't usually think what terrible oppression, slavery and suffering it can bring
>nobody can coerce anyone anymore (nor harm in any physical way)
ha! imagine i own a server which can run a few minds, then i get copies of minds of several people (or if i cannot i just grow them myself emultaing the process how baby's mind develop, see greg egan's "orphanogenesis") and treat them as slaves, rape them, do everything what i want, torture and kill them if i want just because i have root privilegies and they don't disregard they are the same people as me
anarchistic society is the worst idea here, at least state can regulate it to some extent
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Anonymous2013-02-20 11:20
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Ethical issues should be fun. If a software-mind person wants to transfer from point A to point B, they have to create a copy at point B and delete the copy from point A. But the copy at point A must stop running as soon as the copying starts; if it runs for even a second after the copying finisheed, they become separate entities and the destruction of the A copy becomes murder.
Also, if a software-mind person has a bunch of backups all over the place (naturally) and they are killed by someone one minute after their last backup, they can be revived from the backup and all they "lost" was one minute. Is it murder or what?