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

People who regularly read your posts don't need a quote at all to figure out your intent because it's always some out of context false innuendo or pure invention for the same purpose, but it's worth noting for the initiates.

And you can't even manage two sentences in a row without doing it.

Not very clever to argue how easy it is when you haven't gotten a thing right yet.

That's just weird.

So you are a Microsoft defender who believes Microsoft Windows is a monopoly. You believe Microsoft has the power but you believe the government should allow Microsoft to use that power anyway it wants to. Are you a Libertarian?

I didn't say a thing about needing to "know everything." Or can't you grasp the vast gulf between clueless and omniscience?

LOL

Well, if there are they're doing bang up job of hiding it.

Courts and Judges dictating product content isn't a free market.

Only to anti-business fanatics.

I'm sure you were, when things came out the way you wanted. And you then hated it when things didn't. That's not a 'guess' on my part, it's taken straight from your assessment.

Since a significant part of the decision process was evaluating what should, or should not, be a part of the O.S., among other things, your claim is pure nonsense.

I'm never going to respond to any of your contrived nonsense.

I've already explained why I am not going to discuss it with you.

Well, it's at least eerie that you manage to do it so effortlessly.

Like this snip job of yours leaving in your nonsensical accusations but stripping my reply.

And you wonder why I won't discuss a complex legal issue with someone who has debate ethics akin to a pathological ax murderer.

Your perfect record of being wrong remains intact.

As easily as you can grasp the the difference between "clueless" and "knowing something".

Not if you pay close attention.

It happens all the time in a free market.

To someone who believes in a rule-based society.

Clearly you believe that businesses should not have to play by rules or the rules should not be enforced by the government because the government can't do anything right.

Sounds like a Libertarian zealot to me.

It's a wild guess. I think the final outcome to date was wrong. The idea that I hated it exists only in your imagination. The appellate court judges had plenty of insight and not all of the district court's judgment was correct (in my opinion).

Speaking of nonsense. That was part of the proposed remedy, not part of the trial, and that was done by the prosecution.

You certainly contrive a lot of nonsense while defending Microsoft.

Some silly notion about software being too complicated for anyone to tell the difference between an operating system and applications.

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much of version 1 of dos was purchased from someone else, not developed at microsoft. while not binary compatible with 8080-based CP/M it did have a similar functional structure. and was probably atleast partially compatible with CP/M-86 an 8086 version of CP/M that never really took off.

Bye. Jasen

Ya know, all this really isn't about Bill Gates or Microsoft Per Se. It's about the greed factor and the power factor and the control factor. The desire for absolute power and to corrupt absolutely . The sort of thing that rears its ugly head virtually every single day of our lives. Like Enron, Hollinger international and on and on.

With Microsoft, like many others it *is* about greed and power.

With the oil industry, it *is* about greed and power. For example, I live in the north-eastern part of this north American continent. In the summertime, the price of gas goes sky-high because of the demand and heating oil drops and in the wintertime the price of heating fuel goes sky-high because of demand and gas drops. The immediate response or belief drilled into the general public is that there is a shortage of oil. There is NOT. There is plenty of oil. I know, because where I live, we are net exporters of oil. The problem is that with the increased demand, nobody is building extra refining capacity. Especially those who *control* the industry. You know, the Exxons, Shell, and so on. It's gotten to the point where these bastards are driving the crap out of a barrel of oil because (get this) they're expecting a friggin' snow storm in the north-east of the continent.

Greed, power and control.

Same with Microsoft. Control (virtually all PCs run Windows of one flavor or other) Greed (absolutely no sane reason to charge the prices they do for the garbage they sell) Power (as someone said earlier, they can get away with

That's what my bitching is about. Its not thinly veiled envy, jealousy or any other petty begrudging. It's being just totally pissed with a system where some people will starve to death or freeze this winter and others will take comfort in the fact that they have "looted everyone else so effectively" that it is impossible to spend the wealth in several lifetimes.

Do I have the answers like some of you *think* you do?? No. However, that doesn't mean I can't vent about it if I desire.

Contrary to your belief, It is my business if I say or think it is. Don't you realize that, as a citizen, you have no say in

When you wear out the blinders you're currently wearing, gimme a call. I got another pair I can sell you.

The great American, and British public, accept that power and control. Between us all we could bankrupt any corporation we wanted to. All we have to do is band together and boycott them and their goods, and down they go. How could that be done ?. bw..OJ

THEN

there,

I said STFU, do as your told!

I find it amazing two people with not a single post referencing hardware, however when they are given an off topic subject they know nothing about, you can't shut them up.

Some people bitch, and do nothing. If anything, your the two with all the answers. re-read your posts...then STFU once again. Maybe you and the expert on one handed typing could get together and have a circle jerk.

POOF! your Bill Gates....whats the first thing your going to do? You haven't a clue do you? please don't start with the first thing is to give your money away and give away windows..... Your kidding yourself. Oh whats that?, dont make assumptions about what your motives would be......... shoe sux when its on the other foot?

Like Republicans here in the United States. Some people wonder why Republicans are becoming the porkbarrel spending party. Well DUH, it's because Republicans control how the money is spent. Democrats have turned into deficit hawks because now taxpayer money goes to Republican interests and constituents. The party in power spends and the minority party complains about it.

That is a lot easier said than done. Many people think Microsoft stifling personal computer growth is okay and would drive another company out of business while they were working very hard to switch operating systems. Living in a country that enforces intellectual-property law, you would need consensus plus a whole lot of effort and money. The rest of the world just pirates the software.

So, why are you commenting?? Aaaah, just another trolling A**hole looking for an argument.

I did, it's enough to knock a buzzard off a s*it wagon at 50 yards.

your a well rounded bigot aren't you?

you

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The better the vocabulary, the more precise and efficient the communication.

It's impossible to know another person's vocabulary level unless he indicates his level in some way. People with large vocabularies have a natural tendency to use those vocabularies to the fullest and do not necessarily realize it when and if they exceed the recognition vocabularies of their interlocutors.

A stranglehold? Perhaps you meant a struggle, which far better characterizes Microsoft's activities back in those days.

In the world of computer software, the advantages of standardization are so enormous that they sometimes take priority over almost everything else, particularly from the standpoint of ordinary computer users (as opposed to specialists).

Thus, although Microsoft Windows is by far the dominant desktop operating system, the advantages of it being so outweigh the disadvantages in many respects for the average end user, which is why it tends to remain the dominant operating system.