Mandrake is a ripoff of Red Hat and Red hat is a rip off of Slackware and Ubuntu is a rip off of Debian.
so what is your point, this is OSS, it is OK to do this.
Revolutionize?! an mp3 player?! If I recall there were mp3 players before the iPod.
And what's with the assumption that I read zdnet or one of the other ziff-davis rags. sheesh!
As for Toyota, just like Apple they took what someone else invented and did something different, thats all, Toyota made their cars many times more reliable than anybody else. Apple took a free OS slapped on a proprietary face and marketed the hell out of it. just like the i-Pod they took what was already there and made a slick wheel interface charged 3 times what everybody else was for mp3 players and marketed the hell out of it.
Apple: a great marketing company that makes a product that is better than Microsoft's but by far not the best. just the slickest.
I'm sorry, New York City has been called the big apple as far back as the 1930's, if you think that Apple is going to win this I think you are mistaken. NYC government is not filled with morons or bloggers or give a rats hind quarters about how cool Apple is. they will protect their copyright in a way that Apple has never seen.
thank for the debate, it was fun. don't take what I say so seriously.
for all you know I am a linux fanboy!:P
zzzzz.....
What's with the Microsoft comparisons, I am not a Microsoft fan. and to be honest I don't dislike Apple computers except for their price/performance
ratio.
please, Apple is no better than any other company, you can insult if you like but lets be realistic.
I am a Big fan of Toyota, There is no car that compares in my opinion, But, I do not believe for one second that they are perfect. walking around with palm branches in their hands and wanting to unite the world. They are a public company, and no matter what, it is all about the BOTTOM LINE, if making cars better than anyone else makes more money for shareholders then that is what they will do. just like Apple.
and the difference between Ballmer and Jobs is that Jobs is way better at manipulation. Ballmer is easier to dislike, he cannot control his mouth and he looks like an untrustworthy person.
And one more thing, Emotionalism is the purview of Apple,Microsoft and Linux fanboys.
"What you probably did hear about was the iPod user who was hit by lightning, or the kid who got a burn from a defective battery."
sorry, never heard about those things. but, Apple suing bloggers and apple fan sites, sure you hear about that all the time.
that's what makes them pricks.
P.S.
I never made any mention about Microsoft, they are really no better than Apple or any other Corporation. Do you really want anyone to believe that Apple is somehow more moral that every other
corporation?
Don't make all YOUR opinions based on what you're spoon fed by Apple PR. and your fanboyism.
hey, I no real problem with apple....except that they have a real problem with litigation. they are sue happy, sue companies, sue municipalities, sue apple fans. is is just real scummy, just like when Ford sent out those cease and desist letters to the
Mustang fan clubs for posting photos of their cars on the mustang fan club web site because they own
the rights to the design of the car. see, that is scummy, Apple scummy.
Funny, I hope that NYC crushes that arrogant, SOB of a company. NYC has been The Big Apple way before that prick company from Cupertino was a glimmer in
Jobs and Wozniak's eyes.
Holy Shit, I'm confused? Am I in NYC or did I just buy a Mac? what a bunch of jerk-offs.
yeah, setup about 10 macs in a common area of the retirement home and let them at it. after all, how much should that cost approximately?.... about 10k? that's nothing for the (as Master Jobs would say)"synergy" they will have using a mac.
so, what you are saying is that the 15k financed plus the 200 a month battery fee is going to come out to 380 a month?
are you financing all of the 15K? cause let say it is a 4 year loan at 7% interest it comes out to around 334.00 a month plus the 200 a month "fee" for the battery lease......hmm, that comes out to 534.00 a month not including insurance and charging fees.....what a great bargain!
overpriced and half as useful as a real car. remember when the big thing was those book sized tablets?
no keyboard just a pen and a screen. they wanted well over a t-bill for them, you could get a laptop for about the same or less and have a real computer. the same go's for this car, a neat Idea but way over the top pricing, I guess if you had money to burn and driving something like this made you feel all warm and fuzzy inside because you felt you were doing the right thing, go for it. but, in my opinion, the people who need a car like this are the last ones who could afford them, people with low incomes,(the 30k and less income range) like single mothers or people starting out in life and need transportation to and from work and other mundane things,people who cannot generally afford to think about traveling out of town for fun or otherwise. If you're income is in the 50k or more range buying somthing like this would be more for a novelty rather then some important/urgent need to save money.
My mother for example, she is on a fixed income, I am going to have her sell her 1997 Camry and get
a pre-owned Echo, perfect vehicle for a low or fixed income person/family, uses very little fuel has alot of room for 4 and is completely reliable for about 3500.00 to 6000.00. compare this with a 2 seat 15k plus 200.00 a month electric car that gets 114 miles out of a charge. sorry, this is a car for pipe smoking professers and and knee-jerk liberals that lament their neighbors use of an SUV (but not their own) and get all emotional and righteously indignant over the movie The day after tomorrow.
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Mandrake is a ripoff of Red Hat and Red hat is a rip off of Slackware and Ubuntu is a rip off of Debian. so what is your point, this is OSS, it is OK to do this.
Revolutionize?! an mp3 player?! If I recall there were mp3 players before the iPod. And what's with the assumption that I read zdnet or one of the other ziff-davis rags. sheesh! As for Toyota, just like Apple they took what someone else invented and did something different, thats all, Toyota made their cars many times more reliable than anybody else. Apple took a free OS slapped on a proprietary face and marketed the hell out of it. just like the i-Pod they took what was already there and made a slick wheel interface charged 3 times what everybody else was for mp3 players and marketed the hell out of it. Apple: a great marketing company that makes a product that is better than Microsoft's but by far not the best. just the slickest. I'm sorry, New York City has been called the big apple as far back as the 1930's, if you think that Apple is going to win this I think you are mistaken. NYC government is not filled with morons or bloggers or give a rats hind quarters about how cool Apple is. they will protect their copyright in a way that Apple has never seen. thank for the debate, it was fun. don't take what I say so seriously. for all you know I am a linux fanboy! :P
zzzzz..... What's with the Microsoft comparisons, I am not a Microsoft fan. and to be honest I don't dislike Apple computers except for their price/performance ratio. please, Apple is no better than any other company, you can insult if you like but lets be realistic. I am a Big fan of Toyota, There is no car that compares in my opinion, But, I do not believe for one second that they are perfect. walking around with palm branches in their hands and wanting to unite the world. They are a public company, and no matter what, it is all about the BOTTOM LINE, if making cars better than anyone else makes more money for shareholders then that is what they will do. just like Apple. and the difference between Ballmer and Jobs is that Jobs is way better at manipulation. Ballmer is easier to dislike, he cannot control his mouth and he looks like an untrustworthy person. And one more thing, Emotionalism is the purview of Apple,Microsoft and Linux fanboys.
"What you probably did hear about was the iPod user who was hit by lightning, or the kid who got a burn from a defective battery." sorry, never heard about those things. but, Apple suing bloggers and apple fan sites, sure you hear about that all the time. that's what makes them pricks. P.S. I never made any mention about Microsoft, they are really no better than Apple or any other Corporation. Do you really want anyone to believe that Apple is somehow more moral that every other corporation? Don't make all YOUR opinions based on what you're spoon fed by Apple PR. and your fanboyism.
hey, I no real problem with apple....except that they have a real problem with litigation. they are sue happy, sue companies, sue municipalities, sue apple fans. is is just real scummy, just like when Ford sent out those cease and desist letters to the Mustang fan clubs for posting photos of their cars on the mustang fan club web site because they own the rights to the design of the car. see, that is scummy, Apple scummy.
Funny, I hope that NYC crushes that arrogant, SOB of a company. NYC has been The Big Apple way before that prick company from Cupertino was a glimmer in Jobs and Wozniak's eyes. Holy Shit, I'm confused? Am I in NYC or did I just buy a Mac? what a bunch of jerk-offs.
"after oil is pressed from its nuts"
yeah, setup about 10 macs in a common area of the retirement home and let them at it. after all, how much should that cost approximately? .... about 10k? that's nothing for the (as Master Jobs would say)"synergy" they will have using a mac.
so, what you are saying is that the 15k financed plus the 200 a month battery fee is going to come out to 380 a month? are you financing all of the 15K? cause let say it is a 4 year loan at 7% interest it comes out to around 334.00 a month plus the 200 a month "fee" for the battery lease......hmm, that comes out to 534.00 a month not including insurance and charging fees.....what a great bargain!
overpriced and half as useful as a real car. remember when the big thing was those book sized tablets? no keyboard just a pen and a screen. they wanted well over a t-bill for them, you could get a laptop for about the same or less and have a real computer. the same go's for this car, a neat Idea but way over the top pricing, I guess if you had money to burn and driving something like this made you feel all warm and fuzzy inside because you felt you were doing the right thing, go for it. but, in my opinion, the people who need a car like this are the last ones who could afford them, people with low incomes,(the 30k and less income range) like single mothers or people starting out in life and need transportation to and from work and other mundane things,people who cannot generally afford to think about traveling out of town for fun or otherwise. If you're income is in the 50k or more range buying somthing like this would be more for a novelty rather then some important/urgent need to save money. My mother for example, she is on a fixed income, I am going to have her sell her 1997 Camry and get a pre-owned Echo, perfect vehicle for a low or fixed income person/family, uses very little fuel has alot of room for 4 and is completely reliable for about 3500.00 to 6000.00. compare this with a 2 seat 15k plus 200.00 a month electric car that gets 114 miles out of a charge. sorry, this is a car for pipe smoking professers and and knee-jerk liberals that lament their neighbors use of an SUV (but not their own) and get all emotional and righteously indignant over the movie The day after tomorrow.