I assume those statistics are for people buying vista by itself in the store right? Not including vista sales from pre-installed computers.
How many people have you heard that got their free copy of Vista from their school or college? How many people got Vista with their new computer and then installed XP?
Now how many people did you hear actually went and BOUGHT Vista? Yeah, that's what I thought..
Wow, they sold 40 million copies, but how many did they sell for $0?
It makes sense if you're looking at the options...
Vista - Breaks compatibility, Is expensive, Means upgrading or purchasing new equipment, having to purchase extra applications after install
Ubuntu - Breaks compatibility, Is free or cheaper with professional 24x7 support, doesn't require upgrading or purchasing new equipment.
Macintosh - Breaks compatibility, requires purchasing new equipment, possibility of having to purchase extra applications?
All three OS choices break compatibility. Since this is a the case it means companies are looking at OS's on a level playing field and weighing the advantages and disadvantages of each.
I wasn't blaming anyone I was pointing out that the consumer doesn't have a choice when I comes to selectively not purchasing Chinese made products. You could buy something which you think is made in a different country but in fact includes components inside that product from China.
There are other places in the world which would be happy for these companies to exploit them. China isn't the only cheapest manufacturing country on the planet..
I have 3 gigs of ram so I dont see any slowdowns but the RAM usage for vista ranged from 556-718MB with no application running.
For comparisons sake I have two computers running Ubuntu..
First is a desktop which has been running for 3 days on 2.6.22-14-generic and is running Gutsy. This one is using 344 Meg of ram, minus the programs I have running right now.. Firefox (124 meg), Pidgin (25 Meg), Gyachi (7 Meg). Altogether it totals around 500 Meg of usage. I might have left some program in there so it might be lower then 334 Meg with no programs open.
The second computer is a laptop running Ubuntu Feisty. It's been running for 47 Days on 2.6.20-16-generic. The memory usage on this one with no applications open is 212 MB.
Also, since there is no verifiable way of being able to measure who is and who isn't using a Microsoft OS we will never know until it is too late for Microsoft to do anything about it.
You have to admit though that Linux is doing quite well. If Linux was a Desktop OS by one proprietary company in competition with Microsoft it would have been crushed 10 years ago. I think most people overlook this point and don't realise how well Linux stands up in a very competitive environment.
I'm reading your post and above it there is another post with a link to goat.se and you were the one that got modded troll. Note to the moderator, it's against the guidelines to mod people troll just because you don't agree with them.
potentially dangerous as people would also "mis-quote" your life, showing only the bad things out of context...
I suppose its possible to go around with a camera and a microphone and log everything... you're jacking off? Or taking a dump?
It's easy to do.
On a side note think of the porno memories you could put in! and on a bad note the goat.se memories people could fool you into installing! ahhh! Forget it, I don't want this technology now..
Seriously, who does this woman think she is? All she did was all the hard work in creating something. Who is she to profit from it?
It's sarcastic but trying to make out that she is some poor artist or creator that has had her work stolen. That is not the case and it's more complicated then that.
She's not some poor artist which is why I pointed out she's made billions of pounds.
Seriously, who does this woman think she is? All she did was all the hard work in creating something. Who is she to profit from it?
My point was that portraying her as some poor artist/creator that has lost money is completely false.
She created this universe but that doesn't give her a monopoly over it. She can't copyright wizards, spells or flying broomsticks. What's next? No one can use an elf in their IP because it was in lord of the rings?
I think it's pretty relevant as she plans to copy the wiki herself and sell a competing factoid book. Since the wiki is fair use it's not stealing. She just has sour grapes because someone beat her to it.
See my other comment in this thread. They're not stealing from her, it's all fair use and the reason shes kicking this up is because she wants to compile the wiki herself and make the book.
Well sucks to be her because after looking at the wiki which they want to re-package it looks like fair use to me. I can't see any large blobs of text taken from the book.
The only reason she is putting up this lawsuit is because she wants to re-package the wiki herself which is probably why she was contributing to it in the first place.
You didn't answer my question. Are you proposing she wouldn't make any more money from her creative works? Are you saying that this book would sell so many copies that it is worth it for her to take legal action?
No, I am saying she is so rich that why does she even care if someone makes a few $100 because of her. She probably spends more in a day then these guys are stealing (is that even the right word?) from her.
These people are her fans so going after them only makes her look bad. Why bother?
I agree that is going too far to sell someone else's work but if you were a billionaire would you really care that much? All it's going to get you is negative publicity to the point where it's not even worth it.
Hence why I said it's not like she is hardly making any money from her work. She, her children, her children's children, her children's children's children, etc, etc are set for life. None of her familey will ever have to work for at least 500 years maybe longer on that money.
So why go for the jugular on some fans making a bit of borderline legal cash or the side to fund their site?
When I mean crap I am talking about the laws and typical government stuff. I have many American friends and they're all nice people and the culture is nice too.
There is one really big gripe I have and that is with the "us vs. them" mentality towards politics where people try to place you into a left or right wing box depending on your views on a particular subject matter so they can then easily ignore anything you say if you're not on "their side". It feels like no one in America can hold their own particular views and have to be part of "a team" when it comes to talking about how the/a country should be run.
I guess the biggest reason I wouldn't visit is because I think it is too dangerous there right now. First you have to worry about the plane being hijacked on the way over, then you have airport security to deal with, then you're outside anything could happen and it costs a lot of money to go to a hospital in the US.
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I assume those statistics are for people buying vista by itself in the store right? Not including vista sales from pre-installed computers.
How many people have you heard that got their free copy of Vista from their school or college? How many people got Vista with their new computer and then installed XP?
Now how many people did you hear actually went and BOUGHT Vista? Yeah, that's what I thought..
Wow, they sold 40 million copies, but how many did they sell for $0?
It makes sense if you're looking at the options...
Vista - Breaks compatibility, Is expensive, Means upgrading or purchasing new equipment, having to purchase extra applications after install
Ubuntu - Breaks compatibility, Is free or cheaper with professional 24x7 support, doesn't require upgrading or purchasing new equipment.
Macintosh - Breaks compatibility, requires purchasing new equipment, possibility of having to purchase extra applications?
All three OS choices break compatibility. Since this is a the case it means companies are looking at OS's on a level playing field and weighing the advantages and disadvantages of each.
Go ahead and do it. It's only a few fibre cables. Cut it somewhere and leave them a note as to why you cut the cable...
I wasn't blaming anyone I was pointing out that the consumer doesn't have a choice when I comes to selectively not purchasing Chinese made products. You could buy something which you think is made in a different country but in fact includes components inside that product from China.
There are other places in the world which would be happy for these companies to exploit them. China isn't the only cheapest manufacturing country on the planet..
First is a desktop which has been running for 3 days on 2.6.22-14-generic and is running Gutsy. This one is using 344 Meg of ram, minus the programs I have running right now.. Firefox (124 meg), Pidgin (25 Meg), Gyachi (7 Meg). Altogether it totals around 500 Meg of usage. I might have left some program in there so it might be lower then 334 Meg with no programs open.
The second computer is a laptop running Ubuntu Feisty. It's been running for 47 Days on 2.6.20-16-generic. The memory usage on this one with no applications open is 212 MB.
We as a world full of people don't buy "Made in China" crap. Companies buy it and leave us no choice but to buy from them.
When the choice is to have a product or to not have a product, that doesn't count as a choice.
First Thailand banned YouTube, then two weeks later Siam Tube is launched.
Also, since there is no verifiable way of being able to measure who is and who isn't using a Microsoft OS we will never know until it is too late for Microsoft to do anything about it.
You have to admit though that Linux is doing quite well. If Linux was a Desktop OS by one proprietary company in competition with Microsoft it would have been crushed 10 years ago. I think most people overlook this point and don't realise how well Linux stands up in a very competitive environment.
I have to agree with the AC look at what happened more recently with Burma. All talk, no walk.
It was on British news a few nights ago. The people running Colossus were really confident they would beat the PC. How wrong they were..
Why is slashdot so messed up...
I'm reading your post and above it there is another post with a link to goat.se and you were the one that got modded troll. Note to the moderator, it's against the guidelines to mod people troll just because you don't agree with them.
On a side note think of the porno memories you could put in! and on a bad note the goat.se memories people could fool you into installing! ahhh! Forget it, I don't want this technology now..
She's not some poor artist which is why I pointed out she's made billions of pounds.
She created this universe but that doesn't give her a monopoly over it. She can't copyright wizards, spells or flying broomsticks. What's next? No one can use an elf in their IP because it was in lord of the rings?
I think it's pretty relevant as she plans to copy the wiki herself and sell a competing factoid book. Since the wiki is fair use it's not stealing. She just has sour grapes because someone beat her to it.
See my other comment in this thread. They're not stealing from her, it's all fair use and the reason shes kicking this up is because she wants to compile the wiki herself and make the book.
Well sucks to be her because after looking at the wiki which they want to re-package it looks like fair use to me. I can't see any large blobs of text taken from the book.
The only reason she is putting up this lawsuit is because she wants to re-package the wiki herself which is probably why she was contributing to it in the first place.
You didn't answer my question. Are you proposing she wouldn't make any more money from her creative works? Are you saying that this book would sell so many copies that it is worth it for her to take legal action?
Are you seriously proposing that she wouldn't make any more money because of this website?
You can profit as much as you want, but why go after your fans that use your work to fund their fan site?
It doesn't make sense since she wouldn't benefit from taking them down and would actually effect her negatively from all the publicity.
No, I am saying she is so rich that why does she even care if someone makes a few $100 because of her. She probably spends more in a day then these guys are stealing (is that even the right word?) from her.
These people are her fans so going after them only makes her look bad. Why bother?
I agree that is going too far to sell someone else's work but if you were a billionaire would you really care that much? All it's going to get you is negative publicity to the point where it's not even worth it.
Hence why I said it's not like she is hardly making any money from her work. She, her children, her children's children, her children's children's children, etc, etc are set for life. None of her familey will ever have to work for at least 500 years maybe longer on that money.
So why go for the jugular on some fans making a bit of borderline legal cash or the side to fund their site?
Ah sorry I completely mis-read your question.
When I mean crap I am talking about the laws and typical government stuff. I have many American friends and they're all nice people and the culture is nice too.
There is one really big gripe I have and that is with the "us vs. them" mentality towards politics where people try to place you into a left or right wing box depending on your views on a particular subject matter so they can then easily ignore anything you say if you're not on "their side". It feels like no one in America can hold their own particular views and have to be part of "a team" when it comes to talking about how the/a country should be run.
I guess the biggest reason I wouldn't visit is because I think it is too dangerous there right now. First you have to worry about the plane being hijacked on the way over, then you have airport security to deal with, then you're outside anything could happen and it costs a lot of money to go to a hospital in the US.
Enough about America this is about China.