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As the song says, I want to be a billionaire so fucking bad... please help me get there, and I'll return the Karma some day! 
I have not yet received any checks from google from the Ads on my site... (I'm at 20$ give or take and I need at least 100$ to get a check...) 
So... Will you help me? Find an ad you like and see what product they have to offer... Thanks a lot folks!
-Madlogik

The problem with the computer industry wars.

posted Aug 19, 2011 3:56 PM by Mad Logik   [ updated Aug 19, 2011 6:53 PM ]

When you buy a car, there is no question asked, it is made to get you from point A to point B. 
You might question it's ability to do so fast enough, securely enough, or with good enough seats and suspension, or loud enough speakers... 
but YOUR goal is to get from A to B ... and a car will do just that

The single biggest issue we face with computer, either that be an Apple driven or Microsoft Driven computer... is that you are never quite sure it will truly help you achieve YOUR GOAL...
There can be software conflicts or incomplete suite of tools...

Take for example, you want to transfer, edit, and then burn to a DVD a video you recorded with your phone... or camcorder...
SO MANY THINGS, AT EACH AND EVERY STEP CAN PREVENT YOU FROM ACHIEVING YOUR GOAL!
(some but not all!)
-device not recognized
-missing drivers
-faulty cable
-missing video codec
-video format incompatible with your editing software
-long converting times if you have an analog video source! 
-you often need the mpeg2 license to burn to DVD! 
-your DVD media might be incompatible with the target DVD reader (DVD +/- R .. DVD+RW ... or whatever equipment is at the other end) 

and ... that's just achieving ONE GOAL with your computer .... next, sending an email, or updating your Facebook status... GOD KNOWS WHAT! 

... it's about time to decide upon a single platform, that's open, and providing complete, full access to all of it's innards (hardware) and supports for add-on's! 

Then, give immediate access to hardcore programmers to the hardware... and slowly update a complete SDK, complete with lessons to get people up and going. 
This formation must be universal, open, easy to understand. I love the Apple way of building the architecture, but at the same time, HATE how they restrict people from incorporating add-on products or apps that would change the end user experience... 
Shame on them for that... but this is Microsoft's single and biggest problem... it supports so much, but provides nothing to users... 
---> HEY MICROSOFT : WAKE THE FUCK UP .... Microsoft Store has to open... no bullshit ... call it the M$tore and people will find it funny... but it's about FUCKING TIME you provide pc users with a platform to download apps from... 
GET PEOPLE OUT OF THE BROWSER... it's Google's land anyways! 
GET PEOPLE OUT OF THEIR PHONES... it's Apple's turf anyways!
---> when most people sit at their computers for long, extended periods of time... you are currently the leader... but Apple will kick your ass for the simple fact that I can download all the apps I need (but your office for mac software!) straight from the Mac App Strore... 
BRILLIANT Steve, ... wake up Bill.. 


Ah, also while we're at it... I don't believe in localisation for apps... 
My first language is French, but I have seen times and times over French versions of software being pledged with bugs that the English versions didn't suffer from! 
The simple fact that french words are often longer than english words create buffer overflows and other memory problems if programmers are not thoughtful about future conversions to other languages!
IMHO: English has always been THE main language on the Internet, and with computers in general, and it should be universally adopted as the only language for us all.. but that's another topic all together ! lol! 

Software has reached it's limits anyways... Now we have the building blocks to help us materialize what we think about or what we dream of. 
We can then tell a machine to crave, build, put together this idea and replicate it many times over for anyone who would desire this item... and implement a way to recycle ANY AND ALL production leftovers. 
Time has come to standardize basics in our world.... so that any products I buy will work with my computer, allowing me to take their raw content, unedited source, get them out on my big screen, and in a mater of hours realize what I had in mind when I shot the said pictures, movies, or recorded sounds, and transform them into the visions I had in mind... to create a window for others to peek inside my brain a bit... sometimes, it does feel lonely in there. 

I hope someone can help me realize the way things could get changed, worldwide... I'm available to any ideas you people might think about. 

Until the revolution, live long and prosper. 




edit: windows 8 will have an app store... way to go Bill & Co!