And the vast majority of MS service packs are hotfixes you could have got immediately using LiveUpdate. Indeed, if memory serves, I got XP SP1 and SP2 from LiveUpdate, cost nada.
And how often does Apple actually do point upgrades ? They usually save them up, and then sell you the next full version with all the bug fixes included.
When will people stop RESPONDING to the supercilious responses to the supercilious responses of first posts as Anonymous Coward, not only adding nothing to the discussion, but also proving they were in fact the parent poster, but don't want to admit to it, for fear of appearing more foolish than they actually were when they made the original post.
Sorry for being naive, but why must an antigravity machine imply perpetual motion ?
Surely antigravity means just that ? Something akin to putting to similar poles of a magnet together, so that they repel ?
If we could generate some form of anti-gravity machine, it would only work as long as it had gravity to repel it ? And the further away you get, the lesser the effect ? I'm thinking in terms of a method to escape the earth's gravity you understand. It would still require some form of energy input.
So where does perpetual motion come into it ? Or is gravity constant throughout the whole universe, thus meaning it would move forever ?
Ah you poor blinkered fool. The pharmas spend all their time playing these kind of tricks, and very little time actually developing ANYTHING new.
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In Malcolm Gladwell's story in The New Yorker, Gladwell discusses the evolution of Prilosec, a popular heartburn medication that, in one five year stretch alone, earned twenty-six billion dollars. With the patent about to expire in 2001 a good thing was about to come to an end for the drug patent's owner, AstraZenneca. The company set out to create the "new and improved" version of Prilosec, one that would qualify for a new patent and keep the money machine rolling. Ultimately, the company discovered that by making a very subtle change in the chemical engineering of Prilosec, they would have an entirely new drug. But to be issued a patent, they had to prove that the new version was better than the old. They decided that their best opportunity was to focus their testing on something called erosive esophagitis, a condition where stomach acid bubbles up and harms the lining of the esophagus.
For the first month of the study, the new drug's impact on this problem was identical to Prilosec's. Bad news for the drug company. But in the second month, tests showed that there was a 90% heal rate with the new drug versus 87% with Prilosec, a difference of only 3% for one month but good enough to qualify for patent protection. Thanks to this small and insignificant improvement, AstraZenneca gained FDA approval, was awarded a new patent and put the drug on the market under the name Nexium. The cost for a month's supply of Nexium is about $120. The cost for the now generic version of Prilosec? About $20 for a month's worth of pills.
Yes, my first response came direct from the gut, but I tend to trust those instincts.
I'm not debating whether is was his job to police those licences... "IT Manager" can mean a lot of things to a lot of people. Neither am I committing myself to a position of legality / illegality of pirated software. It would depend on where you live and what the laws are there. For example, in Russia, it is NOT illegal to pirate software unless it is in the Russian language. They have not signed the Berne Convention, and therefore what they do is LEGAL. I'm not sure of the position in China, but good luck anyway getting the Chinese to respect anything a foreigner says, especially one from USA.
I'm saying that when he brought the matter to the attention of the appropriate person (who actually lives in China and probably has a far clearer picture of the realities there), and when he did not get the response he "expected", he took it upon himself to broadcast it to the world.
Have you actually Googled that headline ? He's up to 4 pages now on various news and tech websites as well as Slashdot. Not terribly professional, airing the companies dirty laundry in public, not to mention he's probably broken confidentialty clauses and put his own head on the line.
Naive ? You betcha he's naive. Otherwise, he'd have dont things in a more professional way.
In some developing countries, software piracy is not considered illegal. In Russia, which is not a signatory to the Berne Convention it is legal to copy any software as long as it is not in the Russian language.
Avoid being that douchebag who thinks he is better than everyone else
I'd say it's probably a bit late for that.
While the poster's motives might appear noble, I don't understand exactly what he's trying to achieve. A promotion, extra brownie points, getting someone in a foreign country fired, or at least severely embarrassed (and they set a lot of store on respect in Asia btw).
He's already approached the person responsible, and voiced his concerns. Just because said person didn't take the action he expected, instead of leaving it alone, he posts it on Slashdot for the world and his wife to comment on. And within a few days it'll be all indexed by Google for posterity.
To me he comes across as an anal retentive asshole who should be spending more time doing his job, rather than trying to shaft other people... but that's just me, karma be damned.
Whether it's not making your computer run like shit, or whether it's not rehacking itself into the startup sequence even after you manually removed the registry entries... something will always work better once Quicktime is gone.
No, the only thing we need to rethink is how the pharma companies can ever justify selling a medication that costs $200 for a single dose.
You know, Chris Rock summed it up nicely. No one will ever cure AIDS, the money isn't in the cure, it's in keeping you alive and helping you live with it. Just get your "fix" and live for one more day.
It's asshole comments like these that piss me off.
The coal will NOT last forever, and as it becomes increasingly rare and demand increases it will become prohibitously expensive.
Wind on the other hand, like solar, will last for about the next billion years, and as a raw material, it is also free...
So should we take a short-term simplistic view that "coal is cheaper (now)", or should we think past the end of the year / decade / whatever, to when your kids and grandkids are having to deal with YOUR shortsightedness and short term objectives ?
I think you have CPUs confused with 100% efficient space heaters.
If the CPU dissipates 130w of heat and only uses 130w, then that means the CPU itself requires 0w for anything else ? Perpetual motion patent, here we come.
Pedro is willing to work for $7 an hour, but a local needs $9 per hour.
And you are going to "solve" this problem by elimiating the minimum wage, so the employer can offer the job for $5 an hour instead ?
All that means is not even Pedro from Mexico can maintain a decent standard of living, and you replace him with Patel from India, or Adbul from Africa, who WILL work for $5 an hour.
Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breath free. The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door!
I guess you should just post over the Statue of Liberty with a billboard reading "No Vacancies During Recession".
The American phrase du jour is that these "foreign workers don't spend their money here, they send it back home"... the bastards, how dare they ???
What you fail to realise, is that all these foreigners are working on a different ethos to you... they SAVE their money, you just BORROW it till your up to your eyes in debt and the system falls apart. You aren't spending YOUR money, you are spending the bank's money, until such time you have repaid it in full.
Maybe if you followed the foreigners way of life more closely, you wouldn't be in all the shit you are now.
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And the vast majority of MS service packs are hotfixes you could have got immediately using LiveUpdate. Indeed, if memory serves, I got XP SP1 and SP2 from LiveUpdate, cost nada.
And how often does Apple actually do point upgrades ? They usually save them up, and then sell you the next full version with all the bug fixes included.
So which is more expensive in the long run ?
Windows has consistently failed to deliver what customers want, but free software does that by definition
What, fail to deliver what customers want ?
That'll teach me to use out of date references :-(
http://www.knowledgerush.com/kr/encyclopedia/Software_piracy/
When will people stop RESPONDING to the supercilious responses to the supercilious responses of first posts as Anonymous Coward, not only adding nothing to the discussion, but also proving they were in fact the parent poster, but don't want to admit to it, for fear of appearing more foolish than they actually were when they made the original post.
(Deep Breath).
Sorry for being naive, but why must an antigravity machine imply perpetual motion ?
Surely antigravity means just that ? Something akin to putting to similar poles of a magnet together, so that they repel ?
If we could generate some form of anti-gravity machine, it would only work as long as it had gravity to repel it ? And the further away you get, the lesser the effect ? I'm thinking in terms of a method to escape the earth's gravity you understand. It would still require some form of energy input.
So where does perpetual motion come into it ? Or is gravity constant throughout the whole universe, thus meaning it would move forever ?
In Soviet Russia, dots quantum you !
Imagine a Beowulf ... ah screw it.
When will people stop RESPONDING to first posts with supercilious comments, that also add nothing to the discussion ?
Ah you poor blinkered fool. The pharmas spend all their time playing these kind of tricks, and very little time actually developing ANYTHING new.
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In Malcolm Gladwell's story in The New Yorker, Gladwell discusses the evolution of Prilosec, a popular heartburn medication that, in one five year stretch alone, earned twenty-six billion dollars. With the patent about to expire in 2001 a good thing was about to come to an end for the drug patent's owner, AstraZenneca. The company set out to create the "new and improved" version of Prilosec, one that would qualify for a new patent and keep the money machine rolling. Ultimately, the company discovered that by making a very subtle change in the chemical engineering of Prilosec, they would have an entirely new drug. But to be issued a patent, they had to prove that the new version was better than the old. They decided that their best opportunity was to focus their testing on something called erosive esophagitis, a condition where stomach acid bubbles up and harms the lining of the esophagus.
For the first month of the study, the new drug's impact on this problem was identical to Prilosec's. Bad news for the drug company. But in the second month, tests showed that there was a 90% heal rate with the new drug versus 87% with Prilosec, a difference of only 3% for one month but good enough to qualify for patent protection. Thanks to this small and insignificant improvement, AstraZenneca gained FDA approval, was awarded a new patent and put the drug on the market under the name Nexium. The cost for a month's supply of Nexium is about $120. The cost for the now generic version of Prilosec? About $20 for a month's worth of pills.
Yes, my first response came direct from the gut, but I tend to trust those instincts.
I'm not debating whether is was his job to police those licences ... "IT Manager" can mean a lot of things to a lot of people. Neither am I committing myself to a position of legality / illegality of pirated software. It would depend on where you live and what the laws are there. For example, in Russia, it is NOT illegal to pirate software unless it is in the Russian language. They have not signed the Berne Convention, and therefore what they do is LEGAL. I'm not sure of the position in China, but good luck anyway getting the Chinese to respect anything a foreigner says, especially one from USA.
I'm saying that when he brought the matter to the attention of the appropriate person (who actually lives in China and probably has a far clearer picture of the realities there), and when he did not get the response he "expected", he took it upon himself to broadcast it to the world.
Have you actually Googled that headline ? He's up to 4 pages now on various news and tech websites as well as Slashdot. Not terribly professional, airing the companies dirty laundry in public, not to mention he's probably broken confidentialty clauses and put his own head on the line.
Naive ? You betcha he's naive. Otherwise, he'd have dont things in a more professional way.
America != World.
In some developing countries, software piracy is not considered illegal. In Russia, which is not a signatory to the Berne Convention it is legal to copy any software as long as it is not in the Russian language.
So what strawman will you choose next I wonder ?
Avoid being that douchebag who thinks he is better than everyone else
I'd say it's probably a bit late for that.
While the poster's motives might appear noble, I don't understand exactly what he's trying to achieve. A promotion, extra brownie points, getting someone in a foreign country fired, or at least severely embarrassed (and they set a lot of store on respect in Asia btw).
He's already approached the person responsible, and voiced his concerns. Just because said person didn't take the action he expected, instead of leaving it alone, he posts it on Slashdot for the world and his wife to comment on. And within a few days it'll be all indexed by Google for posterity.
To me he comes across as an anal retentive asshole who should be spending more time doing his job, rather than trying to shaft other people ... but that's just me, karma be damned.
women moaning with pleasure when nothing particularly pleasurable is happening to them - it wrong information that leads to urealistic expectations.
You're just doing it wrong !
QUICKTIME ??? NOOOOOOOOOOOO, I'm not THAT desparate to see SuperBowl Porn
Uninstalling Quicktime ALWAYS fixes something ...
Whether it's not making your computer run like shit, or whether it's not rehacking itself into the startup sequence even after you manually removed the registry entries ... something will always work better once Quicktime is gone.
Your girlfriend just told you that so you wouldn't feel inadequate.
No, the only thing we need to rethink is how the pharma companies can ever justify selling a medication that costs $200 for a single dose.
You know, Chris Rock summed it up nicely. No one will ever cure AIDS, the money isn't in the cure, it's in keeping you alive and helping you live with it. Just get your "fix" and live for one more day.
It's asshole comments like these that piss me off.
The coal will NOT last forever, and as it becomes increasingly rare and demand increases it will become prohibitously expensive.
Wind on the other hand, like solar, will last for about the next billion years, and as a raw material, it is also free ...
So should we take a short-term simplistic view that "coal is cheaper (now)", or should we think past the end of the year / decade / whatever, to when your kids and grandkids are having to deal with YOUR shortsightedness and short term objectives ?
As Eddie so succinctly puts it ...
"You say baysil, we say basil ... and you say erbs, and we say herbs ... because there's a fucking 'H' in it."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hJQsvoY6VU
GPS detonated ? You'd have to be a pretty psychotic terrorist to transport a bomb that could be detonaed based on GPS coordinates.
Hell, half the time, my phone tells me I'm not in fact at home, but somewhere 27km south west of Burma.
I think you have CPUs confused with 100% efficient space heaters.
If the CPU dissipates 130w of heat and only uses 130w, then that means the CPU itself requires 0w for anything else ? Perpetual motion patent, here we come.
They spend all their time synching their meeting notes and calendar entries between the laptop an dthe PCs of course.
(provided he's a local, and not some dirty foreigner)
So tell me if I got this right ?
Pedro is willing to work for $7 an hour, but a local needs $9 per hour.
And you are going to "solve" this problem by elimiating the minimum wage, so the employer can offer the job for $5 an hour instead ?
All that means is not even Pedro from Mexico can maintain a decent standard of living, and you replace him with Patel from India, or Adbul from Africa, who WILL work for $5 an hour.
Still not going to help the local is it ?
Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breath free.
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me.
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!
I guess you should just post over the Statue of Liberty with a billboard reading "No Vacancies During Recession".
Amen to that ...
The American phrase du jour is that these "foreign workers don't spend their money here, they send it back home" ... the bastards, how dare they ???
What you fail to realise, is that all these foreigners are working on a different ethos to you ... they SAVE their money, you just BORROW it till your up to your eyes in debt and the system falls apart. You aren't spending YOUR money, you are spending the bank's money, until such time you have repaid it in full.
Maybe if you followed the foreigners way of life more closely, you wouldn't be in all the shit you are now.