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19 hours ago, cbae wrote

@blowdart: How about?

That group of people over at Microsoft is just a swell bunch of guys!

Sounds more natural, right?

Nope, definitely "wrong"* in that case, that should be:

That (group of people over at Microsoft) are just a swell bunch of guys!

Because you're definitely refering to multiple entities when you say "group of" (and end with guys). In most other situations though, it's fine to treat a corporation as a singular entity so is/are can both be acceptable.

*Well in to the degree that any usage of English can actually be considered wrong. It's not French, after all.

3 hours ago, Maddus Mattus wrote

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Everybody benefits in a free market. From low income to high income. I think the present situation of the economy in over regulated and over taxed countries is proof that redistribution of wealth via government means, is not solving the problem, but the source of the problem.

Except they don't. Reducing taxation doesn't necessarily make the poor any richer, but it does a lot to help the rich stay richer (and get wealthier too).

6 hours ago, Maddus Mattus wrote

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That's not a free market. That is total anarchy.

There was still a free market for the rich and effectively slavery for the masses. Goods were still sold and traded, money was made. It's just that all the money circulates around the top tiers of society and those at the bottom just suffer.

It's the same with your flawed argument that reducing taxes automatically increases the amount of consumer spending and is thus good, because there is nothing inherent in reducing taxes that suggests that wealth will be redistributed equally or that any increase in consumer spending power won't exist soley in the top tiers of society.

@wastingtimewithforums: Er, hasn't this been known for ages?

And it's completely in keeping with the Express line, which is why WinForms support wasn't in C# Express previously, it only does WPF apps. The Express line, after all, is intended for beginners wanting to learn how to get into the new technologies, not for a freebie method of providing long-term business application support.

54 seconds ago, Maddus Mattus wrote

@Dr Herbie:

"That is also a historic fact"

Example please.

Feudel Britain and, indeed, an enormous part of British history. Pretty much why the class system is so ingrained in our culture even to this day.

And you are quite right in pointing out that complete government control doesn't work either (see the U.S.S.R.) Which is why absolutely nobody is arguing for that either.

It's a checks and balances thing, you need to give enough incentive for people to work and that means both a reason for those at the lower end to want to earn and reason to ensure the rich can't reach the point they simply sit back and exploit the poor either.

50 minutes ago, Maddus Mattus wrote

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Regulations increase (more government), less jobs, rich get more money, poor get less.

Just take it to the extreme, how many consumers would you have with 100% tax? One, the government.

Flip that around though. What happens without any government intervention? Hint: Free market economics ultimately tend towards slave labour, it produces a higher supply for a lower cost.

The only reason a government should interfere with the market, if business between two entities effects a third. That's why government should be able to set standards to the performance of brakes on your car, but not wether you have an airbag installed.

Except that having airbags in cars does reduce the cost for everyone else. Fewer severe injuries in road accidents reduces the overall level of strain on the health services. Less demand for healthcare reduces the overall cost of healthcare and thus the price/person. Very few things in life are as truly isolated as you'd like to assume.

@DeathByVisualStudio: How can you know it's half-a$$ed when so far they've only released early previews? It's pretty clear from the blog post that it's not finished yet (and neither will it be by the next preview either)

@DeathByVisualStudio: There is no doubt that happens too, not every leader ends up being a good one. That does not discount the fact that every genuine advance was pushed by somebody with strong leadership and a vision that may well have seemed flawed to many at the time, but ultimately proved successful. And that's true whether it's the Gates, Jobs, Zuckerberg or Torvalds of the world who are doing it.

8 hours ago, Bass wrote

@cbae:

And we aren't going to get there if every time anyone wants to start a new idea they have to start from the very beginning. That's is a massive, almost criminal waste of time. And nobody (except maybe you) wants to wait for some software monopoly to do things, and complain about their strategy you can't control not going the way you want ad infinitum. That would be a nightmare, not a healthy "industry".

You're joking right? The FOSS world is the king of re-inventing wheels that didn't need it. That's why there are approximately eleventy-billion Linux distributions, it's why there is a new Linux sound stack every other week and why there are probably more FOSS FTP clients than anyone could ever count. Genuinely "advancing the state of technology" actually requires strong leadership and the ability to actually rein in developer egos to get them working in the "right" direction even when they don't necessarily agree with it. It's probably the one thing the FOSS world does far worse than anything else.

Assuming you've got networking working on it properly, you just boot the VM in VirtualPC and domain join it as per usual.

I'm not sure whether it's officially a "supported scenario" or not though, as various domain policies may well break some of the XP Mode functionality. I think that MED-V was the preferred route for scenarios that needed domain-joined XP VMs (it's been a while since I looked into it).