I'm not assuming that it's a huge chunk of the OS, however these licenseable features could be considered to add significant value to the product.
What "value" do you mean? The "extra bits 'n' bytes are actually worth more"-kinda value, or the self-masturbatory biz-speak synonym for "let's use 10 straws in one milkshake and suck until there's nothing left"-kinda value?
When you hold a monopoly on stuff you make more money by confusing your users with different versions. Why settle for people buying your software once when they can buy it twice or thrice, and then blame themselves afterwards instead of you?
Ubuntu Desktop Edition
Ubuntu MID Edition
Ubuntu Server Edition
Ubuntu Netbook Remix
Kubuntu
Xubuntu
Edbuntu
7 official versions of Ubuntu alone. You were saying..?
Difference here being that any of those can be made into one another for free if so wanted, the variations are motivated by taste (KDE or Gnome), use (home or school), and hardware (PC, netbook or server). Windows-versions OTOH is a gradual ascension from "Windows Cripple" to "Windows Unhindered", motivation being to purposefully annoy the users into buying the next version in order to escape hindrance. Why else would they charge more for the Prof. and Ultimate versions if not to squeeze the lemon?
Considering its effect on our people perhaps they can link it with a gas recycling facility in the mens room.
That's a no-go, imagine the massacre if Russia decided to turn off the gas-valve. The last thing heard before the explosion which knocked Earth out of orbit was a million people screaming "The gas must FLOW!"
It's like...y'know...the thing after Net 2.0 and cloud-computing or something. Information gets stored in a pig-bladder and thrown around between nodes...or something...
I want to see what happens if Chuck Norris roundhouse-kicks the flight from the inside. In theory it should propel the aircraft away from Chuck, but since he is inside the aircraft it will hit him in the back of the head. Perhaps we can get this whole "unstoppable force meets the immovable object"-discourse put to rest.
Oh, and it has to be done in microgravity because it'd be intrinsically cooler.
When in time could you fit all internet-pr0n on a 2GB-disk?
Really, it's one of those facts that are fun to know. Screw Bill Gates sitting on top a mountain of paper holding a cd, or the comparison between a modern-day computer and the gym-sized old ones.
- Darkrogue hits Bennygnome for 400 damage.
- Australian Officer casts search-warrant on Darkrogue.
Darkrogue says: "What the h..."
- Darkrogue dies.
Darkrogue has left the game.
.. in fact I'm a diehard linux fanman (too old to be a fanboi!)
But even I'm getting sick of the hysterical anti MS reaction every single time some exploit appears for some or other program.
There's also the possibility that the "hysteria" is simply a result of a growing overall opinion that Microsoft is bad and/or alternatives to Windows are good, in which case "hysteria" is good (as I stand on that side of the fence). Greater market-share = more people bitching and moaning = increased "hysteria" perceived (which is not really hysteria, rather it's more people finding it important).
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I'm not assuming that it's a huge chunk of the OS, however these licenseable features could be considered to add significant value to the product.
What "value" do you mean? The "extra bits 'n' bytes are actually worth more"-kinda value, or the self-masturbatory biz-speak synonym for "let's use 10 straws in one milkshake and suck until there's nothing left"-kinda value?
When you hold a monopoly on stuff you make more money by confusing your users with different versions. Why settle for people buying your software once when they can buy it twice or thrice, and then blame themselves afterwards instead of you?
Ubuntu Desktop Edition Ubuntu MID Edition Ubuntu Server Edition Ubuntu Netbook Remix Kubuntu Xubuntu Edbuntu 7 official versions of Ubuntu alone. You were saying..?
Difference here being that any of those can be made into one another for free if so wanted, the variations are motivated by taste (KDE or Gnome), use (home or school), and hardware (PC, netbook or server). Windows-versions OTOH is a gradual ascension from "Windows Cripple" to "Windows Unhindered", motivation being to purposefully annoy the users into buying the next version in order to escape hindrance. Why else would they charge more for the Prof. and Ultimate versions if not to squeeze the lemon?
Here in Denmark we get paid to study after the age of 18...roughly $700 every month...universities included...
Oh, and we have universal healthcare...and hot girls...and LEGO...
Unlike coding as a group, which gave us Linux, creating meaningful and valid prior art is both harder and much less rewarding.
Nonsense, you just whine because you do not have a timemachine like the rest of us.
Considering its effect on our people perhaps they can link it with a gas recycling facility in the mens room.
That's a no-go, imagine the massacre if Russia decided to turn off the gas-valve. The last thing heard before the explosion which knocked Earth out of orbit was a million people screaming "The gas must FLOW!"
Wow. Almost makes me want to puke...
Brown, yellow, now we just need another color and we got ourselves a new RGB-substitute. How about snot or wasabi?
What the hell is a Super Bowl?
It's like...y'know...the thing after Net 2.0 and cloud-computing or something. Information gets stored in a pig-bladder and thrown around between nodes...or something...
I want to see what happens if Chuck Norris roundhouse-kicks the flight from the inside. In theory it should propel the aircraft away from Chuck, but since he is inside the aircraft it will hit him in the back of the head. Perhaps we can get this whole "unstoppable force meets the immovable object"-discourse put to rest.
Oh, and it has to be done in microgravity because it'd be intrinsically cooler.
When in time could you fit all internet-pr0n on a 2GB-disk?
Really, it's one of those facts that are fun to know. Screw Bill Gates sitting on top a mountain of paper holding a cd, or the comparison between a modern-day computer and the gym-sized old ones.
People use liquid nitrogen to over clock a CPU, news at 11.
Yeah, someone should use bottled slashdot-sarcasm instead, the problem is avoiding turning the computer into Bose-Einstein condensate.
'We are at a point where we have more than enough beta testers and feedback coming in to meet our engineering needs
When can one have enough beta-testers? I mean, they're not doing this to satisfy their engineers, are they?
Obama: "Why can't I keep my Blackberry? :'("
Jesse Jackson: "Because you're not REALLY black, your mother was white".
Obama: "What do I get then?"
Jesse Jackson: "A ZUNE!"
Or maybe he's attempting to combat the idea that something should have greatly increased value just because nobody ever bothered to use it before.
Damnit, I already unboxed the Zune-demo I got from work...
"My left nut is larger than my right nut but does it produce more sperm than my right nut? Discuss."
Depends on how fast you can stream pr0n, and so we'll need to know how much ram you've got, evidently.
So how can we bridge those kinds of gaps?
Kill the stupid people?
I mean, we're already stealing marketshares, we might as well go all in with all these vices.
First chance to see if Obama is a retard or not
NASA-engineer: "So Mr. President, will you fund our project?"
Obama: "My Momma always said life is like a box of chocol..."
NASA-engineer: "FFS, not again!"
...just wait until that terrorist with a load of Sony laptop-batteries strapped around his waist come calling in a populated area near you.
- Darkrogue hits Bennygnome for 400 damage.
- Australian Officer casts search-warrant on Darkrogue.
Darkrogue says: "What the h..."
- Darkrogue dies.
Darkrogue has left the game.
Luckily, that's not the case at all when you're your own boss ;)
Probably not, but resigning from the job is a bitch. I can't agree with myself whether I should quit or I should be fired.
From the WSJ story: 'More than four dozen advanced battery factories are being built in China but none, currently, in the U.S.'"
We, chinese, have vevvy small penises. You amevicans, LARGE penises, but no batevvies to power them HAHAHAHA!
.. in fact I'm a diehard linux fanman (too old to be a fanboi!) But even I'm getting sick of the hysterical anti MS reaction every single time some exploit appears for some or other program.
There's also the possibility that the "hysteria" is simply a result of a growing overall opinion that Microsoft is bad and/or alternatives to Windows are good, in which case "hysteria" is good (as I stand on that side of the fence). Greater market-share = more people bitching and moaning = increased "hysteria" perceived (which is not really hysteria, rather it's more people finding it important).
Eh...I meant superfluous!
...but does it run Linux?
...of Ted Stevens wearing a Mario-suit, plumbing the depths of teh internets, spitting fireballs and wielding a Colt M60.