Why aren't computer clocks as accurate as cheap quartz watches?

If the shoe fits?????

The only people I have seen begging fit Rich's description of alcoholics wanting booze. I've seen them with "Will work for food signs" and they got pissed when someone stopped and gave them food instead of money.

Gee, its easy for you to judge others. Its a warm climate and these people hive migrated here from all over the country. Some have mental problems, others are thieves. They make no attempt to fit in with people outside their small groups, and most encounters are when they are stealing something. How do you expect people to think of them? They have been offered help, food and clothing along with a place to shower for free. Their reaction was to start more trouble. Some have been arrested a number of times.

but

camps.

OH ok judge jury and executioner mike a terrel......... live with them, THEN talk about what you have learned. How they got there, who put them there, and why can't the richest nation in the world take some interest in them.........until then STFU.............

Not easy enough that I can arrest them for begging without feeling a pang of conscience.

So, enlighten us! How do you help people who refuse to be helped? Can you do that with only one hand on the keyboard?

That's the way it is chief. There are loads of people out there who can fix all the world's problems from their armchairs but when it comes down to the crunch, haven't got a practical thought to bless themselves with.

Tons of armchair environmentalists out there as well, most of whom have never planted a tree in their friggin' lives much less saved one. They got the answers though. just ask 'em.

You're assimilating beggars with people who refuse to be helped. They are not one and the same.

Courts and Judges are positively clueless about the software world and to call them 'experts' is absurd.

By your standards it must be 'typical non US mentality' to be class prejudiced and irrationally vindictive then.

Utter B.S. He didn't 'grab CPM'. He made an O.S. that did similar functions, just like any O.S. would have to do and just as CPM copied the functionality of Dec RT-11, in their case right down to calling pip pip.

You want to know what the real 'secret' of his early success was? IBM contacted DR for CPM but they wanted too much money up front for it while Microsoft was willing to practically give DOS away and bet on the future come when, they rightly predicted, IBM would dominate the market.

CPM had first shot at it and the preferred position but blew it. Who knows, maybe they lost by thinking like you do intending to 'kick some rich bastard ass' and make IBM pay through the nose for it. Nah, they were American.

More clueless B.S.

Oh boo-hoo. You throw out baseless vindictives and then accuse a factual response of 'instigating an argument'.

Oh yeah, sure. They're 'all the same'. You know, 'them'. 'Their kind'.

class bigot

Well, it's simple in that it's thoughtless.

Utter nonsense. No one claimed BG was 'helpless' and, for all I know, he might be able to pound you into the sand with one hand, count money on the other, and befuddle you with an extended vocabulary all at the same time... but then he's not here so you're safe to ape pound your chest and thump ground at the illusory beastie.

No reason to let facts get in the way of a good solid prejudice, eh?

What I 'like' is to treat everyone with the respect they deserve, even 'them', and most people who like to 'kick ass' eventually discover their boot firmly planted in their own face from the irrational aim and ardent overswing.

He'd get the same treatment anyone else who sent me a postage due Christmas card would.

name caller

walk and eat pie at the same time

while eating pie

Says someone who cannot even except the extremely well known and decided in stone fact that Microsoft Windows is a monopoly.

It wasn't all that Herculean. Apparently IBM didn't try very hard. Microsoft did a good job of gaining a stranglehold on the personal computer software market and never letting go, and that's where we are today.

And apparently David Maynard is clueless about how justice works. Judges are good at judging and rely on expert witnesses.

I smell a libertarian who believes everything the government does is wrong (unless it agrees with his opinion).

But in fact if it weren't for our government every day deciding in Microsoft's favor and using our police with guns to physically inforce Microsoft's will, Microsoft would fall apart like a playing card house. Put that in your Microsoft defending libertarian fantasy land.

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Typical snip job from the ultimate 'name caller' troll.

Since I have refused to discuss the matter with you you haven't a clue what I may or may not think or 'accept' and you inventing lies isn't going to change that fact either.

I suppose you missed the fact that there are always 'expert witnesses' on both sides of any case with directly opposing 'opinions' and in something as technically complex as an O.S. there is no way for someone clueless about software to even grasp the arguments, much less 'judge' which one is the better, assuming there is such a thing as 'better' when it comes to 'opinions' on what an O.S. should, or should not, have as it's components and how it 'should' be structured.

Wrong, as usual.

Nice piece of schizoid logic you got there with the government simultaneously condemning Microsoft for being, as you call it, a 'monopoly', yet 'protecting' them.

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I'm not surprised you have so much trouble with judgment, considering how you struggle with using ordinary words in ordinary contexts. That paragraph is a good illustration. You even question the meaning of words in your own usage.

Judges don't have that problem.

An operating system should not have applications as it's components if you want to promote competition among software developers. And if you pretend to not know the difference between an operating system and an application, you are just a liar. There is a gray area but it's not that difficult to generally separate an operating system from applications.

Silly, as usual.

You are a Microsoft defender troll wearing very big blinders.

Our justice system is getting hundreds of millions of dollars a year from Microsoft.

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That's all the context a reader needs to understand my reply.

You sometimes follow 200 lines of quoted text with a single line reply. Combine that with how trivial most of your replies are, it's like you are trying to waste bandwidth.

It's easy enough to figure out.

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I'm not surprised you continue to invent nonsense as it seems to be your specialty.

No, what they have a problem with is being clueless about software.

What I want to 'promote' is a good product, not some anti-business crusade.

Which demonstrates you're almost as clueless as the judges are.

Yes, you were, but I decided to keep it simple with just plain wrong.

No, I'm a defender of facts and rational thought.

Then it's nice to see they're making a profit for a change.

It might be meaningful to Bill Gates, but (hopefully) not because he feels a loss. I'm really not sure what the amount would be for it to cause Bill Gates to worry that he is going to run out of money. It's just not meaningful like giving of your time is meaningful.

Bill Gates is an inspiration. Whenever I feel like I don't have enough, I simply remember that Bill Gates needs mo' money too.