you're free to not purchase anything from any of these companies, or any company that purchases parts from said companies.
Good luck with that.
Oh, and i prefer to pay $10 for my keyboard versus $100 for the same thing made by an overpaid, underqualified union hack who gets paid way to much for his skill level all because he's willing to pay a tax to a dictatorially run organization.
We can start fining the companies that buy from Chinese producers right after we abolish unions in the USA.
They both have similar goals, enrich themselves at the expense of their workers. The addition is that Union leadership also hopes to steal as much as possible from the companies that their workers work for, while at the same time protesting the "inadequate pay and benefits" the companies pay to their "disciples".
However, I'd also be willing to bet that the $0.41 the worker makes in the chinese plant is a bit more than they can make working on the farm they left.
of course we've done our part. We've told them to "RTFM"....
We've told them "you don't really need that program anyway, use this crappy open source version instead"....
We've told them "Well if it doesn't work just go into the CLI and type in blah blah blah and then recompile and use this other weird ass workaround"......
We've told them "well next time make sure your device works with linux before you buy that amazingly popular peripheral"......
We've told them "Well this open source program does MOST of the same things as that proprietary one does, it'll interface with your mp3 player for the most part, all you'll lose is this one thing..".......
and on, and on, and on.
as was so eloquently pointed out a week or so ago, most open source programs are 90% complete, because thats the easy part of writing it. the actual writing of the app and making it do the common things. Then there's the last 10% which is making it easy to use, designing a good UI, and writing the documentation.....
which is where most FOSS does a dramatic and very steep dive into the ground.
Businesses don't want "community support". They want to have someone on staff who can fix it, and if not, they want someone to call.
Which is why Red Hat and the like ARE IN BUSINESS TODAY.
If you don't have that, don't expect a government to come running to your FOSS program, regardless of what it is.
wish i had mod points because i'd mod you both down for being morons.
the day violence ends in the world is the day the military will gladly put down its weapons and walk away.
however, sticking your fucking head in the sand leads you to be assraped like france in world war 2 and then crying to other countries to come help you.
how do yo think all of the women in Iraq feel about now, since suddenly, they have a large number of representatives in their governemnt? sure, it was mandated, but now, they may finally be accorded the RIGHTS that people in other countries TAKE FOR GRANTED and are routinely denied to islamic women in the modern world.
I'm pretty sure (since i'm related to a bunch of them) that they are pretty darn happy about this new prospect.
And it wouldn't have happened without outside interference.
so amazingly, moral issues aren't always black and white like morons try to make them.
your "immoral war" happened to lead to a shift in how an entire class of people are treated. and the shift was for the better.
pull your head out of your ass and realize that there are no absolutes in the world. none. period.
When you're reducing the amount of money the government removes from my paycheck by lowering my tax rates, no one pays for it.
if it also comes along with reduced federal spending and less pork barrel projects (they happen on both sides so dont think im picking on one or the other) then it also costs nothing.
thats the way to create change.
americans are debt spenders for the majority.
give em a $300 check and they pay off a little of their average $5k credit card debt.
give em $200/month by taking less tax dollars at the federal and state level (and reducing the government involvment in their life) and they will eventually start SPENDING that money after a few months on something other than bills.
they'll still carry their credit card debt to what they consider acceptable levels, but they will do so by spending every month.
this is not supposition, this is proven fact that any economist will agree with. they may not agree with how you give them the money, but they will agree with the way the spending patterns are stated.
maybe it was the fact that apple changed their stance on different pricing models that really made the difference, and thus the record labels were correct......
just because apple did something, doesnt mean it was a golden decision and everyone else is wrong.
this is slashdot. if it's about windows, you must be negative. it's in the TOS.
and morons will be morons reagrdless of the fact that it's been widely reported that there will only be TWO version that the average consumer even sees available. Home premium and Professional.
and professional, unlike vista business, does not have the media center and media capabilities gimped/removed.
starter is for thrid world countries, so 99% of/. whiners will never even see it (BTW apple hinted ata stripped down version years ago and was lauded for it, but then again....)
basic is for oem's only and while aimed at netbooks, most oem's wont use it.
home premium is for average home consumers.
professional is for advanced users and businesses (just like XP Pro was except it also adds the media center ability xp didnt have)
enterprise is volume lisc only, meaning you wont see it at all unless you're TRYING to buy it for a mid to large corporation.
ultimate is limited availabilty and while it includes everything, the extras over professional are all on the bit locker, direct access, highly specialized areaas. most people who bought ultimate before will now buy professional. many qho bought ultimate only did so for the ability to join domains and host RDP sessions and still have media center capabilities. now they can get professional.
so, in reality consumers will have two versions to choose from.
just like XP.
and they will be less confused and most will, once again, simply choose home premium.
except that wonderful macos you tout comes with an additional expense of needing to buy the hardware along with it, which apple is the only source for, and thus also has revenue from.
so in reality, did it only cost $100?
or did you also pay them more because you purchased the hardware along with it, and they simply "hid" some of the cost of the OS in the cost of the hardware?
the only way you have a clue what apple OSX costs is the $129.99 version you can buy standalone, but again, you've already purchased their hardware, and thus potentially already paid more for the OS in reality.
The man is delusional and just needs to go visit any communist/socialist society and live in it to discover that his ideals just don't work because human nature will not allow it.
....or instead will he kill of entitlement programs and force government agencies to justify their budgets and FINALLY kill the asinine concept of FORCING an agency to spend all of their current year budget in order to justify their next years budget.
oh, i know, to bleed money ferociously and take your company bottom line so low that it nearly killed it!!!!!
oh and now you can spin off parts of it (and hope to sell them to someone) so you can at least try to remain viable?
AMD has been so poorly run over the last 4 years it's just plain sad.
HOPEFULLY, they can get their shit together and remain viable, but this new chip isnt going to do it for the most part. there just isnt going to be enough call for it wit the way spending on IT is slowing and the fact that except for the very top end, most servers out there are under utilized to begin with.
i have a friend with two different carriers and the space shuttle models sitting in his den.
they've moved houses with him as assembled pieces....
i think they work just fine.
me personally, i stopped supporting lego when it became near impossible to just build something out of one of their sets.
i have 30 sets from my youth and can remember building all kinds of things with the sets because they came with a few specialized pieces and then a whole bunch of regular pieces.
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you're free to not purchase anything from any of these companies, or any company that purchases parts from said companies.
Good luck with that.
Oh, and i prefer to pay $10 for my keyboard versus $100 for the same thing made by an overpaid, underqualified union hack who gets paid way to much for his skill level all because he's willing to pay a tax to a dictatorially run organization.
We can start fining the companies that buy from Chinese producers right after we abolish unions in the USA.
They both have similar goals, enrich themselves at the expense of their workers.
The addition is that Union leadership also hopes to steal as much as possible from the companies that their workers work for, while at the same time protesting the "inadequate pay and benefits" the companies pay to their "disciples".
However, I'd also be willing to bet that the $0.41 the worker makes in the chinese plant is a bit more than they can make working on the farm they left.
no, not really.
of course we've done our part.
We've told them to "RTFM"....
We've told them "you don't really need that program anyway, use this crappy open source version instead"....
We've told them "Well if it doesn't work just go into the CLI and type in blah blah blah and then recompile and use this other weird ass workaround"......
We've told them "well next time make sure your device works with linux before you buy that amazingly popular peripheral"......
We've told them "Well this open source program does MOST of the same things as that proprietary one does, it'll interface with your mp3 player for the most part, all you'll lose is this one thing..".......
and on, and on, and on.
as was so eloquently pointed out a week or so ago, most open source programs are 90% complete, because thats the easy part of writing it. the actual writing of the app and making it do the common things. Then there's the last 10% which is making it easy to use, designing a good UI, and writing the documentation.....
which is where most FOSS does a dramatic and very steep dive into the ground.
Businesses don't want "community support".
They want to have someone on staff who can fix it, and if not, they want someone to call.
Which is why Red Hat and the like ARE IN BUSINESS TODAY.
If you don't have that, don't expect a government to come running to your FOSS program, regardless of what it is.
so it's worse than we thought.
you're too lazy to simply walk outside your room and down the hall?
bastard.
wish i had mod points because i'd mod you both down for being morons.
the day violence ends in the world is the day the military will gladly put down its weapons and walk away.
however, sticking your fucking head in the sand leads you to be assraped like france in world war 2 and then crying to other countries to come help you.
how do yo think all of the women in Iraq feel about now, since suddenly, they have a large number of representatives in their governemnt?
sure, it was mandated, but now, they may finally be accorded the RIGHTS that people in other countries TAKE FOR GRANTED and are routinely denied to islamic women in the modern world.
I'm pretty sure (since i'm related to a bunch of them) that they are pretty darn happy about this new prospect.
And it wouldn't have happened without outside interference.
so amazingly, moral issues aren't always black and white like morons try to make them.
your "immoral war" happened to lead to a shift in how an entire class of people are treated.
and the shift was for the better.
pull your head out of your ass and realize that there are no absolutes in the world.
none.
period.
When you're reducing the amount of money the government removes from my paycheck by lowering my tax rates, no one pays for it.
if it also comes along with reduced federal spending and less pork barrel projects (they happen on both sides so dont think im picking on one or the other) then it also costs nothing.
thats the way to create change.
americans are debt spenders for the majority.
give em a $300 check and they pay off a little of their average $5k credit card debt.
give em $200/month by taking less tax dollars at the federal and state level (and reducing the government involvment in their life) and they will eventually start SPENDING that money after a few months on something other than bills.
they'll still carry their credit card debt to what they consider acceptable levels, but they will do so by spending every month.
this is not supposition, this is proven fact that any economist will agree with.
they may not agree with how you give them the money, but they will agree with the way the spending patterns are stated.
maybe it was the fact that apple changed their stance on different pricing models that really made the difference, and thus the record labels were correct......
just because apple did something, doesnt mean it was a golden decision and everyone else is wrong.
and how many versions of linux for even the basic distros have been released with different kernels in the same time......
this is the only logical argument in the whole chain.
why have ultimate?
why not just put those features into professional?
the only answer i could come up with is that Pro will be available to the retail customer easily, ultimate will not.
and do you really want the average moron to be playing around with whole disk encryption?
thats just a recipe for disaster.
then blame the oem, since it's already been proven that most netbooks will easily run the home premium and ultimate versions of Win7.
oh wait, why blame the real creator when you can just blame MS.....
my bad......
stop believing the press reports as gospel.....
you already can do this......
the dvd will contain all versions, just like the vista dvd does.
your key determines the version installed.
you can do in place upgrades from VHP to Ultimate or VB to ultimate quite easily.
the only difference now is that a user doesn't HAVE TO PAY the high price for ultimate if they dont want the features.
the can decide to upgrade later, pop in the dvd, upgrade IN PLACE and even try it out for 30 days without paying for the upgrade.
then they can simply go to MS's website, use the anytime upgrade program and pay for their upgrade.
no mess, no fuss, no screwing around.
do you have a clue about this?
have you ever even investigated this?
what university do you work for so i can tell all the people i know to avoid it like the plague.
just like vista, each DVD will come with the retail versions on it.
except this time, it will include:
Windows 7 Home Premium
Windows 7 Professional
Windows 7 Ultimate.
what key you enter during installation sets what feature set you will install.
pretty fucking simple if you ask me.
even a freetard couldn't screw that up.
except the professional version WILL include the media center applications this time........
per reports.
this is slashdot.
if it's about windows, you must be negative.
it's in the TOS.
and morons will be morons reagrdless of the fact that it's been widely reported that there will only be TWO version that the average consumer even sees available.
Home premium and Professional.
and professional, unlike vista business, does not have the media center and media capabilities gimped/removed.
starter is for thrid world countries, so 99% of /. whiners will never even see it (BTW apple hinted ata stripped down version years ago and was lauded for it, but then again....)
basic is for oem's only and while aimed at netbooks, most oem's wont use it.
home premium is for average home consumers.
professional is for advanced users and businesses (just like XP Pro was except it also adds the media center ability xp didnt have)
enterprise is volume lisc only, meaning you wont see it at all unless you're TRYING to buy it for a mid to large corporation.
ultimate is limited availabilty and while it includes everything, the extras over professional are all on the bit locker, direct access, highly specialized areaas. most people who bought ultimate before will now buy professional. many qho bought ultimate only did so for the ability to join domains and host RDP sessions and still have media center capabilities. now they can get professional.
so, in reality consumers will have two versions to choose from.
just like XP.
and they will be less confused and most will, once again, simply choose home premium.
except that wonderful macos you tout comes with an additional expense of needing to buy the hardware along with it, which apple is the only source for, and thus also has revenue from.
so in reality, did it only cost $100?
or did you also pay them more because you purchased the hardware along with it, and they simply "hid" some of the cost of the OS in the cost of the hardware?
the only way you have a clue what apple OSX costs is the $129.99 version you can buy standalone, but again, you've already purchased their hardware, and thus potentially already paid more for the OS in reality.
Seriously?!?!
WTF!
Dude has his head so far up Jobs' ass that he can only see when Jobs smiles.
And even the people who read the WSJ think he's a fucktard.
Thus the reason he is labeled a ZEALOT.
The man is delusional and just needs to go visit any communist/socialist society and live in it to discover that his ideals just don't work because human nature will not allow it.
yes because only one side of the equation lied, cheated, and tried to steal an election......
and the media only presented fair and balanced coverage too.....
FAIL.
....or instead will he kill of entitlement programs and force government agencies to justify their budgets and FINALLY kill the asinine concept of FORCING an agency to spend all of their current year budget in order to justify their next years budget.
There, fixed that for you.
get a real video card that does the decoding on the GPU and the clock speed of the cpu matters very little.
and that reason would be?
oh, i know, to bleed money ferociously and take your company bottom line so low that it nearly killed it!!!!!
oh and now you can spin off parts of it (and hope to sell them to someone) so you can at least try to remain viable?
AMD has been so poorly run over the last 4 years it's just plain sad.
HOPEFULLY, they can get their shit together and remain viable, but this new chip isnt going to do it for the most part.
there just isnt going to be enough call for it wit the way spending on IT is slowing and the fact that except for the very top end, most servers out there are under utilized to begin with.
i have a friend with two different carriers and the space shuttle models sitting in his den.
they've moved houses with him as assembled pieces....
i think they work just fine.
me personally, i stopped supporting lego when it became near impossible to just build something out of one of their sets.
i have 30 sets from my youth and can remember building all kinds of things with the sets because they came with a few specialized pieces and then a whole bunch of regular pieces.
the galaxy commander comes to mind.
*whoooosh*
if you rtfa, you would note that the current build of adobe reader isn't vulnerable either.