No he will not be able to do that. I can imagine several ways in which Microsoft could be toppled, but it is impossible for an individual to create a superior operating system.
The Mage wrote:
And it was impossible for a guy too young to drink to create a billion dollar net worth in facebook. (Actually I don’t think his facebook value reached a billion until after he could drink.)
Never say never.
DoubleDuce wrote:
I believe windows XP has around 36 million lines of code. One person can’t even comprehend all the programing, much less write it.
Who says he needs to write 36 million lines of code? Why does it have to be exactly the same thing? Maybe the kid creates a whole new revolutionary way of running an operating system on 16K of memory.
Or maybe he makes an evolutionary programming leap in Linux.
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Just too many functions needed to compete.
A programming leap in Linux is possible, but he would need to use a bunch of other people’s work.
No he will not be able to do that. I can imagine several ways in which Microsoft could be toppled, but it is impossible for an individual to create a superior operating system.
And it was impossible for a guy too young to drink to create a billion dollar net worth in facebook. (Actually I don’t think his facebook value reached a billion until after he could drink.)
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That sounds much better and I understand what you ment. But you do understand that I couldn’t let that pass by, don’t you?
[quote]LIFTICVSMAXIMVS wrote:
skaz05 wrote:
I am very curious as to why capitalism is all of a sudden considered evil.
The evil doctrines of dialectical materialism and collectivism…and it isn’t “all of the sudden”.
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Good post. A couple of other ruminations:
Nobody runs out and has public rallies to become capitalists. In point of fact “capitalism” as a movement doesn’t exist, but was invented by the left roughly a century ago in order to further their oppositional claims.
The word “exploitation” has been redefined in the public eye to be a synonym with “profit”. Any time I make money, even if I am self-employed, I have to be exploiting someone.
Finally – and most importantly – commerce makes no claims of morality. Paradoxically, it is this honesty which has allowed the left – which is simply a secular, moralistic movement – to claim the high ground unopposed. Whether or not you buy a gross of Smurfs is a business deal, not a reflection on you. As a business person, it’s just plain weird to think in moralizing terms while transacting business, and finding oneself the object of invective afterwards is, to say the least, equally strange.
It is amazing to me that supposedly progressive left wingers rant about the evils of money like old time tent revivalists (with whom they have more in common that they’d care to admit) rather than seeing money as being essentially the information for supply and demand in an economy. How can you have some sort of rational economic planning if every transaction is all but a sin? Generally economies are very, very complex things and the simple fixes that are proposed end up being wrenches thrown in the works rather than improvements.
Here is one simple example. People talk about how evil it is that High School teachers make a pittance compared to, say, a pro football coach. However, have you seen how low the standards are for teachers? Any idiot can get certified and get a job. Matter of fact, the Education School is where people who are failing academically usually end up. How many people can coach a gifted athlete to set a world record though? Even though I’m an egghead that works at a university, I think the coach earns it and the teacher doesn’t. (No I’m not saying that the teacher doesn’t work, just that the skill set is pretty low and that is what sets the market value. Ditch diggers also work damn hard but are cheap.) But the point isn’t about the money, just, but about a pervasive sense that athletic activities are an outgrowth of war (insert pop psychology here proving football is surrogate warfare and all the guys are closet queers too if you like), and war is so evil that the mere hint of association is enough to damn. In most arguments from the left, if you peel them back, they are little more than rants about evil and the people making them are no better than a lot of the fundis they get the vapors over.
