60 prices schemes for windows? maybe apples calculator is broken, last time i checked there were about 5 because Microsoft go into multiple markets. But hey if you cant look up a spreadsheet with 5 columns maybe you should just knock the whole computer thing on the head.
Most of the free downloads that MS offers are to offer functionality that Mac OS X has built in. And Apple has a site devoted to OS X software that is written by 3rd parties. A lot of it is free, and some is even open source.
If you removed Sysinternals (which they bought), most of the significant free downloads from MS are developer tools (OS X comes with all that on the OS X install media) or document viewers (built in to OS X). And as soon as mac becomes popular, all of the apple ties will have to be loosend to pretty much the same functionality as what microsoft have as fast as you can spell anti-trust case.
Microsoft fucked up Longhorns development so bad they took 6 years to release it, that's why they had to release SP2 in 2004 with new features. Rest assured if they had a new platform to release at the time, they would have made you pay for it too, and they did exactly that when Vista came around *6 years* after XP was released. And SP3?
Apple doesn't make anyone pay for bugfixes, they are still supporting OS X 10.3 for free which is quite old at this point. Yes Apple makes people pay for new features, that's how they fund new development of their platform. Oh right so a working Xorg that's a new feature not a bug fix.
You have a problem with them being rewarded for their effort? No I dont have a problem with either model I just dislike fanboys pretending they get a better deal with apple, they get a different one but defiantly not a better one.
They should just continue to spend significant development time and resources giving away new versions of software simply because you bought a Mac 7 years ago? But you pay for the development when you buy the product, including support for as long as the company offer it, with microsoft thats something like 13 years of support (with free feature updates (no matter how small the features are you do get them in SP1/2/3) for 7) with apple i dont know how long they offer support for, but they definatly dont offer any free features.
Microsoft doesn't even remotely do what you are suggesting, they don't give away new features for free. They release bugfixes as they should, and security patches. look up SP1/SP2 & to a lesser extent SP3
Watching Apple leapfrog Microsoft in usability and functionality over and over makes me think perhaps these advances are related to the fact that they are actually being paid to improve things over time, while the majority of Windows users paid less than $50 over the entire course of XPs lifetime, all at once. Watching Microsoft maintain backfunctionality while apple arnt even support the hardware that made up 100% of user base 6 years ago for much longer. And watching Microsoft support a wide range of hardware (sure they dont write the drivers but they have to produce a usable API/ADI for software and drivers to use and maintain drivers for plenty of parts). Suggests your talking crap, because the 2 OSs have different goals (Microsoft want to keep their users, mac dont have any to keep)
So yea if you want to make a value assessment, i can see why Apple charges for significant platform upgrades with entirely new features. I don't however see Microsoft even significantly upgrading their own platform at all, even with paid upgrades like Vista. Were not talking about vista tho (p.s even though it sucks it has a larger market share than all macs put together), were talking about the support offered by Microsoft for XP, which is enough for you to leapfrog vista altogether (assuming windows 10 is only 2 years late). BTW microsoft dropping the ball is nothing new, they always manage to pick it up before mac get anywhere though. 95 & 2000 wern't exactly brilliant, hell it seams like they drop one, win one tbh.
Look while youd like me to believe that MS dont support their products, hell as an apple fan boy you might even believe it yourself, 13 years is along time to offer support for your products and whatever mistakes you made when releasing them.
Spam filters, atleast the webmail ones (im careful with my actual email address), generally let admail in fine, they do get rid of most v!agra or nigeria prince emails, but most adverts from 'partners' get though without every being picked up as spam.
id go for a slight variation explain to him all the work you'd have to do to make your system legal, feel free to exagurate but basically going from a simple mail server to a mailing list that drops people that respond to the unsubscribe, could waste days of your productivity (if you weren't from here, anyway) Then explain that all this work wont create many actual sales.
Also given that its not actually malicious spam, a genuine advertisement once a month/week isn't that bad, if he agrees to set-up an unsubscribe system, i wouldn't worry about it. This is no worse than the regular emails you get from companies 'partners' all hes done is cut out the dubious middle men who probably do sell your addresses to spammers.
Also to avoid increasing spam by your email being caught by a spammer and the addresses harvested please use the BCC field with a dummy TO address.
Couldnt help but laugh when he lists all his linux configurations and then says all the hardware was won in a vista competition.
Cant help but think they should have gone a few further tho. 1) remove the R2-D2 software and replace with linux 2) upgrade the motors in the R2D2 to make him fast 3) replace the crappy projector with a holographic one (may require inventing of small portable holographic projectors) & replace warning video with princess Leia starting clip 4) get R2 to show you the fault 5) profit
but hey I never won any vista competitions to get the hardware in the 1st place.
apple make you pay for new features every 2/3 years, Microsoft pack the smaller ones in for free for 8 years apple make you pay for bug fixes every 2/3 years, Microsoft give them away for free for 8 years.
Sorry but if I wasn't a sucker that paid to much for hardware id sure as hell go for MS.
Hog? wait...na...give me a sec...hehe....alright....and im done laughing. Call me when you get vista running with full effects & 4 desktops on 128 ram with integrated graphics. ( celeron something slow like 1.6ghz). I mean it wasn't lightning fast I couldn't use firefox2 (3 ran ok though) but then I had a similar experience on a duel core 1GB system with vista.
The longer it is, the better the mathematician is. The 18th century mathematicians like Gauss & Legendre were proud that nobody could find an application to thier work.
I mean Einstein & Born get all the credit but most of the time great physicists are just applying the maths of great mathematicians 50+ years before them
I thought scientific FACT was built on the presence of observed (not potentially observable... OBSERVED) evidence to support the hypotheses and tests devised when using the scientific method. I hope more of this new science, just like the new math, makes into all of those schoolbooks are youngsters are using in school these days. Funny perhaps you should look up quantum mechanics & evolution (as in the larger scale historical sea-creatures to humans) which cant be observed.
please do... Being able to charge it once every week, on any modern Nokia charger (absolutely any Nokia charger if you keep the tiny adapter with you) Not having to go with O2/rip of American phone company Not being DRM ridden
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RC3 to real should just mv firefox3RC3 to firefox3.0 , which means ubuntu already has it.
Its closed source no-one knows what could be in there!
60 prices schemes for windows? maybe apples calculator is broken, last time i checked there were about 5 because Microsoft go into multiple markets. But hey if you cant look up a spreadsheet with 5 columns maybe you should just knock the whole computer thing on the head.
If you removed Sysinternals (which they bought), most of the significant free downloads from MS are developer tools (OS X comes with all that on the OS X install media) or document viewers (built in to OS X). And as soon as mac becomes popular, all of the apple ties will have to be loosend to pretty much the same functionality as what microsoft have as fast as you can spell anti-trust case.
with apple i dont know how long they offer support for, but they definatly dont offer any free features. Microsoft doesn't even remotely do what you are suggesting, they don't give away new features for free. They release bugfixes as they should, and security patches. look up SP1/SP2 & to a lesser extent SP3 Watching Apple leapfrog Microsoft in usability and functionality over and over makes me think perhaps these advances are related to the fact that they are actually being paid to improve things over time, while the majority of Windows users paid less than $50 over the entire course of XPs lifetime, all at once. Watching Microsoft maintain backfunctionality while apple arnt even support the hardware that made up 100% of user base 6 years ago for much longer. And watching Microsoft support a wide range of hardware (sure they dont write the drivers but they have to produce a usable API/ADI for software and drivers to use and maintain drivers for plenty of parts). Suggests your talking crap, because the 2 OSs have different goals (Microsoft want to keep their users, mac dont have any to keep) So yea if you want to make a value assessment, i can see why Apple charges for significant platform upgrades with entirely new features. I don't however see Microsoft even significantly upgrading their own platform at all, even with paid upgrades like Vista. Were not talking about vista tho (p.s even though it sucks it has a larger market share than all macs put together), were talking about the support offered by Microsoft for XP, which is enough for you to leapfrog vista altogether (assuming windows 10 is only 2 years late). BTW microsoft dropping the ball is nothing new, they always manage to pick it up before mac get anywhere though. 95 & 2000 wern't exactly brilliant, hell it seams like they drop one, win one tbh.
Look while youd like me to believe that MS dont support their products, hell as an apple fan boy you might even believe it yourself, 13 years is along time to offer support for your products and whatever mistakes you made when releasing them.
They are apples and apples its just google have a competitive advantage.
For doing what? sending adverts?
Spam filters, atleast the webmail ones (im careful with my actual email address), generally let admail in fine, they do get rid of most v!agra or nigeria prince emails, but most adverts from 'partners' get though without every being picked up as spam.
what spam? this is just our mailing list.
id go for a slight variation
explain to him all the work you'd have to do to make your system legal, feel free to exagurate but basically going from a simple mail server to a mailing list that drops people that respond to the unsubscribe, could waste days of your productivity (if you weren't from here, anyway)
Then explain that all this work wont create many actual sales.
Also given that its not actually malicious spam, a genuine advertisement once a month/week isn't that bad, if he agrees to set-up an unsubscribe system, i wouldn't worry about it. This is no worse than the regular emails you get from companies 'partners' all hes done is cut out the dubious middle men who probably do sell your addresses to spammers.
Also to avoid increasing spam by your email being caught by a spammer and the addresses harvested please use the BCC field with a dummy TO address.
Couldnt help but laugh when he lists all his linux configurations and then says all the hardware was won in a vista competition.
Cant help but think they should have gone a few further tho.
1) remove the R2-D2 software and replace with linux
2) upgrade the motors in the R2D2 to make him fast
3) replace the crappy projector with a holographic one (may require inventing of small portable holographic projectors)
& replace warning video with princess Leia starting clip
4) get R2 to show you the fault
5) profit
but hey I never won any vista competitions to get the hardware in the 1st place.
yeah some of us dont even have severs to run so we just sit on slashdot all day and post stupid comments.
apple make you pay for new features every 2/3 years, Microsoft pack the smaller ones in for free for 8 years
apple make you pay for bug fixes every 2/3 years, Microsoft give them away for free for 8 years.
Sorry but if I wasn't a sucker that paid to much for hardware id sure as hell go for MS.
Hog? wait...na...give me a sec...hehe....alright....and im done laughing.
Call me when you get vista running with full effects & 4 desktops on 128 ram with integrated graphics. ( celeron something slow like 1.6ghz).
I mean it wasn't lightning fast I couldn't use firefox2 (3 ran ok though) but then I had a similar experience on a duel core 1GB system with vista.
we got it but the Microsoft employees were too busy trying to patch the free upgrade to vista bug you were talking about.
I believe your point is best summarised by http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVOnFdMf0RU&feature=related
says differently
I dont get why you have to sign an NDA so you cant talk about Open Source code tbh!
The longer it is, the better the mathematician is. The 18th century mathematicians like Gauss & Legendre were proud that nobody could find an application to thier work.
I mean Einstein & Born get all the credit but most of the time great physicists are just applying the maths of great mathematicians 50+ years before them
yeah i get the lunix thing now. wooooooooooooooooooooosh
please do...
Being able to charge it once every week, on any modern Nokia charger (absolutely any Nokia charger if you keep the tiny adapter with you)
Not having to go with O2/rip of American phone company
Not being DRM ridden
What you mean like Pax and SElinux that have been around forever?
Im sure theres a FileSystem joke in there somewhere.
EOM
Prove that a photon that doesnt hit a detector (e.g your eye) actually exists.