Windows 10

My guys put printf()s into their code to debug. Recall, this *is* the year 2014.

just to load the mouse and keyboard drivers.

Krw is inventing stuff again. I don't eat donuts, so that even if I used a touch screen - which I don't (except on my portable phone, where I've got t o use a stylus to match the resolution of the screen) - I wouldn't have a p roblem.

I've not yet had any need to concoct a PowerPoint presentation, so integrat ing a theremin input scarcely counts as an immediate need. My wife did give me a Rogers pointer once, and it still lives in my brief case, along with the other stuff that might be useful at a job interview, in the unlikely ev ent of my ever having one. I got the - unpaid - job of being Treasurer for the NSW branch or the IEEE (with its 2,774 members) without anybody botheri ng with a formal interview, and my last job interview was in 2009.

can teach it to you in an hour, in Linux.

Multitasking and realtime are frequently common to the OS. There is often no other way to do the job at hand. Just the same realtime requires careful and thoughtful design. Read Hatley and Pirbai (sp?) on the topic.

Oh, thanks. That must be the answer.

Windows works in the way IT WANTS TO -- so do you mean that "just" works implies total loss of control ?

You have hit the nail right on the head.

That is exactly the problem. An applications programmer should have to do any "peek/poke" operations.

On Wed, 1 Oct 2014 21:58:58 -0700 (PDT), Bill Sloman Gave us:

Leave it to you to tie those two together, when such an interface mode would have application replacing the entire current pointing and picking "cursor" motion technology.

Such an interface has nothing to do with Powerpoint, idiot.

And *you* obtained a doctorate?

What did *you* obtain, and from what institution or hospital?

A single point of data *is* all it takes disprove a false universal statement, such as your about "Windows just working".

I suggest a course in elementary logic might be of benefit for you.

As you wrote earlier in your posting "You're trying to prove something with an anecdote. Don't work that way."

At least try to make your individual statements within one posting consistent!

As you wrote earlier in your posting "You're trying to prove something with an anecdote. Don't work that way."

At least try to make your individual statements within one posting consistent!

No, I didn't check there were Linux drivers before I bought the peripherals, for the simple reason I wasn't using Linux at the time!

Please try not to confuse "I've been contradicted" with "I've been lied to". It makes you look like a either fool or troll, or a foolish troll.

Troll.

When windows doesn't work you turn into beggar.

When Mac doesn't work you turn into an exile.

everything, even disk?

It's spot-on, phones are overrated. :)

About as often as I've reinstalled windows to solve a windows problem. the advantage to recompiling the kernel is that the system is still somewhat usable during the recompile.

Den torsdag den 2. oktober 2014 02.16.46 UTC+2 skrev snipped-for-privacy@attt.bizz:

I've never recompiled Linux for a desktop,

I've done it many times for an embedded board where I'm the one building the hw

-Lasse

God Lord, Slowman. No one is forcing you to demonstrate just how stupid a PhD can be!

It's often an (W)LAN problem. It seems that if the connection to the network is flaky, it'll wander off trying to reconnect and nothing happens during that time. Sometimes annoying when trying to work offline but manageable (turn off the radios).

It's in there. Try reading it again. Maybe it'll sink in.

You've never recomplied any apps, either? I'm not believing you.

Different issue. I have no problems with Linux as an embedded platform. OTOH, it makes a crappy desktop platform unless your job is designing embedded systems (software).