I read what you wrote, but all I heard was "Me me me me me me me me me me me me me..."
I am PROUD to sacrifice a higher portion of my income so that someone who has no income can get a heart transplant if needed and then go on to get a PhD without spending several hundred thousand dollars on tuition fees and hospital bills.
After all, that someone could be me someday.
Stop being such a selfish fuck.
"Alternatives to Windows for individuals (Customers, if you will) are often obtained for the cost of 720MB of bandwidth"
However, this just begs the questions:
How would one download this alternative without an operating system installed to begin with (i.e. Windows)
If Windows is already installed, what incentive is there for the customer to go through all the trouble of downloading and installing a new OS?
Customers are not forced to use Windows, however, human nature dictates that they will since it's already there.
However, customers (albeit particularly ignorant ones) also labour under the assumption that Windows is their only choice for their PC, for every PC these days have stickers all over it that say "Built for Windows XP" or something of the like.
If you bought a car (yes, the tired old car analogy) and it had stickers and an owners manual that stated "This car was built to use Mobil 10W/40 oil," I think that customers would likely only purchase Mobil oil for fear that anything else could damage the car or void the warranty.
However, there is another source for bias reporting:
2003
4,000 On dial-up
2,400 Happy with dial-up
2004
1,600 Leave their dial-up service
1,600 New dial-up customers (new computer users)
4,000 On dial-up (considering above loss and gain)
2,400 Happy with dial-up
There wasn't much consideration for the actual turnover in the customers they have. Those who were happy in 2003 may have subsequently become unhappy and switched to broadband. Statistics like these don't really mean too much.
I can also show that 100% of people who have eaten tomatoes will die. However, 0% have died from eating a specific tomato (as I have eaten it, oh no!).
St. Augustine, back in the day, posited that if there are other planets with life on them, Jesus would have had to visit them all in order to "save" them.
If Jesus did in fact do this, it would remove the uniqueness of Jesus. Since the bible states that Jesus' is unique, this could not have happened.
Thus he surmised that there is no life on other planets.
Is that I'm pissed off for suddenly loosing my ranking a month ago. I used to be in almost every spot for the top 30 results for the keyword "QQQ", but now I am below 100. =(
The next stage will be to engineer anti-microsoft nano machines (one could call them a vaccine) that will systematically convert all MS computers into Debian computers.
If the user gets upset over the change, he too will be converted into a Finnish Linux geek.
I recently signed up with Fido Canada for their City Fido service, which is unlimited local calling and costs only 40$ CDN a month.
I've replaced my home phone with a cell phone it was so cheep.
I live in Canada, which is one of the "exempt" countries, but this exemption hasn't stopped the U.S. from fingerprinting and photographing Canadians of Persian descent.
Basically this exemption is for white people of European descent in the end...
I won't bother mentioning the frightening parallels this brings to mind...
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You might have gone with your trusty towel, but I was snatched up and went to the show in my bathrobe.
... that I also previewed this post 5 times and only noticed that I typed my user name instead of ironic in the title AFTER posting it. =)
...this story appears immediately I just spent an hour wrestling with CUPS and a bloody "Unsupported Personality: PCL" error.
For those that are interested, use this driver for the HP LaserJet 1012 if you don't want to have to power-cycle the printer every 5 or ten pages.
I read what you wrote, but all I heard was "Me me me me me me me me me me me me me..." I am PROUD to sacrifice a higher portion of my income so that someone who has no income can get a heart transplant if needed and then go on to get a PhD without spending several hundred thousand dollars on tuition fees and hospital bills. After all, that someone could be me someday. Stop being such a selfish fuck.
2^25,964,951 to 1 against also happens to be the finite amount of improbability needed to generate the infinite improbability drive out of thin air.
And your comment sounds rather redneck. Makes sense, considering the narrowmindedness of most PC users I've met.
You were 1 minute too late. I got to the forbidden fruit first. =)
Is it any coincidence that Apple Computers has a logo of an apple with only one bite in it?
first post?
maybe
However, this just begs the questions:
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How would one download this alternative without an operating system installed to begin with (i.e. Windows)
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If Windows is already installed, what incentive is there for the customer to go through all the trouble of downloading and installing a new OS?
Customers are not forced to use Windows, however, human nature dictates that they will since it's already there.However, customers (albeit particularly ignorant ones) also labour under the assumption that Windows is their only choice for their PC, for every PC these days have stickers all over it that say "Built for Windows XP" or something of the like.
If you bought a car (yes, the tired old car analogy) and it had stickers and an owners manual that stated "This car was built to use Mobil 10W/40 oil," I think that customers would likely only purchase Mobil oil for fear that anything else could damage the car or void the warranty.
Well, I do enjoy a good rim-job.
However, there is another source for bias reporting:
2003
4,000 On dial-up
2,400 Happy with dial-up
2004
1,600 Leave their dial-up service
1,600 New dial-up customers (new computer users)
4,000 On dial-up (considering above loss and gain)
2,400 Happy with dial-up
There wasn't much consideration for the actual turnover in the customers they have. Those who were happy in 2003 may have subsequently become unhappy and switched to broadband. Statistics like these don't really mean too much.
I can also show that 100% of people who have eaten tomatoes will die. However, 0% have died from eating a specific tomato (as I have eaten it, oh no!).
Well, try and heat an entire cup of coffee from 20C to 90C in 2 x 10^-9 seconds, then tell me that it's not a lot of energy...
Pisses me off! Fucking money-grubbing bastards!!
First they take a perfectly good story like "I, Robot" and gut everything except for the fucking fact that it had a robot!
BASTARDS!
I think I've slept with him!
Actually that is not entirely true...
St. Augustine, back in the day, posited that if there are other planets with life on them, Jesus would have had to visit them all in order to "save" them.
If Jesus did in fact do this, it would remove the uniqueness of Jesus. Since the bible states that Jesus' is unique, this could not have happened.
Thus he surmised that there is no life on other planets.
Is that I'm pissed off for suddenly loosing my ranking a month ago. I used to be in almost every spot for the top 30 results for the keyword "QQQ", but now I am below 100. =(
I didn't win, but at least I'm in the list!
old perl releases
grave security issue
buffer overruns
Well, not exactly, but extracted anyhow. =)
old perl releases
grave security issue
buffer overruns
*gasp*
nooooo...oooooooo!
*caugh caugh* *gasp*
nooooo...oooooooo!!
*thud*
The next stage will be to engineer anti-microsoft nano machines (one could call them a vaccine) that will systematically convert all MS computers into Debian computers.
If the user gets upset over the change, he too will be converted into a Finnish Linux geek.
I recently signed up with Fido Canada for their City Fido service, which is unlimited local calling and costs only 40$ CDN a month. I've replaced my home phone with a cell phone it was so cheep.
I live in Canada, which is one of the "exempt" countries, but this exemption hasn't stopped the U.S. from fingerprinting and photographing Canadians of Persian descent.
Basically this exemption is for white people of European descent in the end...
I won't bother mentioning the frightening parallels this brings to mind...
... we simply call them grad students.