'A prime example of our complete failure' This was the week when Research in Motion’s BlackBerry services, including email, BBM and internet were in, and then out and in, out and shaking all about. To many readers’ horror, the London Olympics 2012 seemed likely to run on Windows Vista, and then it wasn’t and Operation Hackerazzi bagged a suspect, allowing naked …
... all other operating systems are totally free of bugs and excess bits that nobody really uses, I mean it's not like Linux, Mac OS or any of those EVER have patches is it? Oh no, that's right, they have loads too, including some schoolboy errors that shouldn't have snuck through QA.
Windows 7 is no more unstable than Macs or Linux, most crashes are caused by 3rd party drivers or cruft.
No OS is perfect, get over it.
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I couldnt care less when a marketing exec dies. Really, truly, DONT care.
But a true computer scientist like Ritchie passes..... its sobering. Its like when we lost Stevens.
Kernighan is still with us.
Those 3 guys built the modern world, but morons do not know such things. They only know how to OOH! SHINY!!
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