On 11/6/17 12:20, Michael wrote:
I can't quite see why this proposal is such a big deal to people - as
has been restated, it's just a quick change in the parser for a slight
contraction in the code, and nothing language-breaking, it's not a big
change to the language at all.
On Monday, 6 Novembe
On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 01:19:06 UTC, codephantom wrote:
Well, everytime I wanted to find something, I had to google
it...
Then I realised I had to pay for it as well...and, that's when
i gave up.
Bill Gates wasn't the richest man in the world for so long
without reason. ;)
On Thursday, 9 November 2017 at 14:42:41 UTC, Joakim wrote:
As I said earlier, the mobile OS story is not over yet, there
are more changes to come.
Yeah...like more factories making more dongles.
You want a dongle?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XSC_UG5_kU
On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 01:04:05 UTC, codephantom wrote:
On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 00:23:03 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
I don't disagree that there are differences between FreeBSD
and Linux, but my point is that for most folks, the
differences are small enough that it's not all tha
On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 01:15:26 UTC, Jerry wrote:
Not much of a technie nerd if it "just finished" and you've
already exhausted your knowledge and have given up :). Just
sayin'.
Well, everytime I wanted to find something, I had to google it...
Then I realised I had to pay for it as we
On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 00:23:03 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
I don't disagree that there are differences between FreeBSD and
Linux, but my point is that for most folks, the differences are
small enough that it's not all that different from trying to
convince someone to use one Linux dis
On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 00:23:03 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
Plenty of us do get picky about details, which would lead us to
one or the other, depending on our preferences, but there are
way more similarities than differences - to the point that to
many folks, the differences seem prett
On Thursday, November 09, 2017 23:42:37 codephantom via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Wednesday, 8 November 2017 at 11:47:32 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
>
> wrote:
> > Oh, I'm all for using FreeBSD, but most of the arguments for
> > using FreeBSD over Windows apply to Linux. And if you can't get
> > someone
On Wednesday, 8 November 2017 at 11:47:32 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
Oh, I'm all for using FreeBSD, but most of the arguments for
using FreeBSD over Windows apply to Linux. And if you can't get
someone to switch from Windows to Linux, you're not going to
get them to switch to FreeBSD. FreeB
On Thursday, 9 November 2017 at 14:42:41 UTC, Joakim wrote:
Do you blame them, given such anti-competitive measures long
undertaken by MS and Apple?
Big businesses do what they can get away with. Once upon a time
governments cared about anti-trust (E.g. AT&T and IBM), but
nowadays it seems li
On Thursday, 9 November 2017 at 14:42:41 UTC, Joakim wrote:
There is some truth to this, but if you cannot compete with a
free product- cough, cough, Windows Mobile- I don't know what
to tell you. In other words, google cannot afford to spend a
fraction of the money on Android that Apple spend
On Thursday, 9 November 2017 at 14:22:22 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
I also think we should add to this discussion that Google was
hellbent on going forward with Android even when it was clearly
inferior. Apple tried to squish out Google's services from
their iOS products for a while. And t
On Thursday, 9 November 2017 at 14:15:47 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
On Thursday, 9 November 2017 at 00:09:32 UTC, Joakim wrote:
smaller search company, did with Android, leaving aside Apple
because of your silly claims that their existing software gave
them a headstart, which is why those
I also think we should add to this discussion that Google was
hellbent on going forward with Android even when it was clearly
inferior. Apple tried to squish out Google's services from their
iOS products for a while. And that is exactly what Google tries
to prevent by funding things like Chrome
On Thursday, 9 November 2017 at 00:09:32 UTC, Joakim wrote:
smaller search company, did with Android, leaving aside Apple
because of your silly claims that their existing software gave
them a headstart, which is why those former computing giants
are all either dead or fading fast.
It is hardl
On Thursday, 9 November 2017 at 12:27:49 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
On Thursday, 9 November 2017 at 00:09:32 UTC, Joakim wrote:
...
I think you greatly overestimate what was needed to compete in
this mobile market at that time. I'm not saying it was easy,
but the PC and mobile giants before iOS/
On Thursday, 9 November 2017 at 00:09:32 UTC, Joakim wrote:
...
I think you greatly overestimate what was needed to compete in
this mobile market at that time. I'm not saying it was easy,
but the PC and mobile giants before iOS/Android clearly didn't
have the vision or ability to execute what
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