You are seriously naive to expect a company to make something because it's the latest technology when there's no or little market.
By that rationale there should be no Atari, Nintendo, Apple Computer, Microsoft, HP, Dell......all companies that initially got into niche markets w/o widespread appeal at the time.
Albeit those markets were much larger than a mom and pop grocery stores target consumer, but today if your marketing department says you probably won't sell 10 billion units in a week (gross exageration to make a point) expensive propositions will be left on the drawing room floor.
Open Source/Free Software is a risky business venture because it's...well free... but we still have Mandrake, Red Hat, etc...
It's a pain in the ass to buy a system from Best Buy or Wal-Mart and when somethin' burns out to get them to fix it. If they do it usually has to be sent somewhere.
Lure them in with good service. Even service PC's people didn't buy from you if you get enough questions about it.
I disagree. If you get hit by someone else chances of you keeping your hands securely on the wheel are small in the first place. Not to mention having an air bag blow open in your face if you get hit hard enough.
A friend got re-ended at only about 25-30 miles an hour and pushed into another car. He had his hands securely on both sides of the wheel but the sudden impact knocked him around enough (even with a seat belt) that he had no control of the wheel.
If you think about it, some games have flaps for added advertising and others don't, so as we can so there's no standard packaging scheme. If the inside of the "flap" were regularly printed with a EULA and more games were packaged this way you'd have your chance to read it first with only a few games truly "losing" ad space.
I thought Linux and Open Source/Free Software was all about DIY. They're letting you have the source so what's the problem? I don't know the GPL by heart but does it say "And if you should take the time to use GPL code and compile it you have to give it up too for the lazy."
If they're going to ban things that kill people when they choose to participate of their own free will though, when will they ban guns that are used to kill people against their will?
57 people if that number is accurate is not an epidemic. When legislation like this builds momentum I stop and think "How many people are killed by guns each year?" and I'm not a gun control type, just a common sense person.
Stop "trying" to make the public safe you morons, it isn't working.
If this kind of protecting us keeps up soon there won't be any Darwin Awards to give out b/c everything foolish enough to try will be illegal.
He dies but was the world really saved? I seem to remember (I haven't seen this movie in a couple of years) that the man with the virus still gets way, (he dies in front of his younger self...spooky) which is to say he can time travel but cannot alter time.
Big Tobacco doesn't kill people. Idiots kill themselves.
To quote Dennis Miller: "If you didn't know smoking was bad for you you're lying through the hole in your trachea."
I don't see a gun to anyone's head telling them to buy that next cig. It's idiots that put those companies into power and it's the idiots that are dying. I don't have any qualms about it, even though since my parent's are big smokers, they're also idiots.
I don't think the ciggie companies should be held liable, no matter how much they lied about cig's not being addictive. I think people dying from some ciggy related disease got what they deserved and shouldn't be trying to take it out on someone else for "bad business practices."
To quote D. Miller again, "Of COURSE it causes lung cancer, of COURSE it causes emphazema(sp?). It's FUCKING SMOKE! Do you stand outside by a camp fire every half hour and inhale big breaths?"
Sure they lied and cheated, but it's not their fault millions of idiots still buy cigarrettes.
I read somewhere a long time ago (I think it was an issue of Wizard: The Guide to Comics) that the attraction a reader had (They were tackling this same topic in the letters section) to Star Wars was the obviousness and absurdity of the entire series.
The villian is dressed in black and wears this grotesque head gear and has a rasping respirator with a deep sinister voice, so you know w/o a doubt that this guys a total bastard.
The Jedi wear their robes and such and have a strong belief in a mythical "Force" that symoblizies a spiritual existence that relates them to peaceful Monks not so far off from those of today and their ages old predecessors.
Then there are the aspects borrowed from ages old stories of good versus evil that have been around for years that are painted so obviously throughout the first 3 movies it's a nice escape from epics painted in subterfuge and guessing games. You know who's who, what's what and you get to sit and watch them kick the shit out of each other.
These guys are just pissed that Lucas (and I by no means praise George like a deity) put all these bits and pieces together and it became more popular than its predecessors.
Perhaps it was gleaned from other works but why should Lucas give credit to anyone? As far as I know the story of good vs. evil has been around in various forms long before even humans (Predator/Prey).
Quit bitching and just deal with the fact that it is what it is, you either like it or you don't. I do.
Hey just b/c our Governor can beat up your Governor doesn't mean you have to pick on him...
He pulled a pretty funny April Fools prank if you haven't heard. He had a press conference called hastily that morning (It was snowing quite hard) to announce he was running for Gov again, then said "April Fools." and left the room.
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You are seriously naive to expect a company to make something because it's the latest technology when there's no or little market.
...all companies that initially got into niche markets w/o widespread appeal at the time.
...well free... but we still have Mandrake, Red Hat, etc...
By that rationale there should be no Atari, Nintendo, Apple Computer, Microsoft, HP, Dell...
Albeit those markets were much larger than a mom and pop grocery stores target consumer, but today if your marketing department says you probably won't sell 10 billion units in a week (gross exageration to make a point) expensive propositions will be left on the drawing room floor.
Open Source/Free Software is a risky business venture because it's
In the end it all boils down to money.
We have too many conglomerates that won't spend to produce "cool" gizmos unless they can make huge returns.
They aren't interested in providing a service because it would be useful, rather only to make money.
It's a pain in the ass to buy a system from Best Buy or Wal-Mart and when somethin' burns out to get them to fix it. If they do it usually has to be sent somewhere.
Lure them in with good service. Even service PC's people didn't buy from you if you get enough questions about it.
If all else fails... turn tricks.
I disagree. If you get hit by someone else chances of you keeping your hands securely on the wheel are small in the first place. Not to mention having an air bag blow open in your face if you get hit hard enough.
A friend got re-ended at only about 25-30 miles an hour and pushed into another car. He had his hands securely on both sides of the wheel but the sudden impact knocked him around enough (even with a seat belt) that he had no control of the wheel.
Imagine if he'd been hit at 60-65-70.
Now people can talk on their phone while driving *AND* take a picture of me flipping them off for doing so!
Given Microsoft's ability to bulldoze Windows users into upgrading...
Of course we know sys admins are exempt from that statement.
If you think about it, some games have flaps for added advertising and others don't, so as we can so there's no standard packaging scheme. If the inside of the "flap" were regularly printed with a EULA and more games were packaged this way you'd have your chance to read it first with only a few games truly "losing" ad space.
"Just my $0.02"
He also spelt original incorrectly.
Is libel print or is that slander?
:P
I thought Linux and Open Source/Free Software was all about DIY. They're letting you have the source so what's the problem? I don't know the GPL by heart but does it say "And if you should take the time to use GPL code and compile it you have to give it up too for the lazy."
I'd much rather have an AGP slot at the expense of one of the 2 pci slots since snd, eth, etc. is all onboard already.
After the .bomb fiasco would you be interested in pushing for a web based service?
I'm not saying the music industry would implode, highly unlikely, but I understand why they may still be clutching at their "tried and true" ways.
Even if it is outdated.
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sorry just bellyaching
What does it do if someone where to flash it? Do a Google search for pr0n for them?
If they're going to ban things that kill people when they choose to participate of their own free will though, when will they ban guns that are used to kill people against their will?
57 people if that number is accurate is not an epidemic. When legislation like this builds momentum I stop and think "How many people are killed by guns each year?" and I'm not a gun control type, just a common sense person.
Stop "trying" to make the public safe you morons, it isn't working.
If this kind of protecting us keeps up soon there won't be any Darwin Awards to give out b/c everything foolish enough to try will be illegal.
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"Have you checked out
"Yes, but it seems the editors haven't."
He dies but was the world really saved? I seem to remember (I haven't seen this movie in a couple of years) that the man with the virus still gets way, (he dies in front of his younger self...spooky) which is to say he can time travel but cannot alter time.
but they usually start with let's get drunk rather than end with
Memorable quotes from the movie itself or from audience members as they left the theatre?
"Meesa Jar Jar Binks!"
Big Tobacco doesn't kill people. Idiots kill themselves.
To quote Dennis Miller: "If you didn't know smoking was bad for you you're lying through the hole in your trachea."
I don't see a gun to anyone's head telling them to buy that next cig. It's idiots that put those companies into power and it's the idiots that are dying. I don't have any qualms about it, even though since my parent's are big smokers, they're also idiots.
I don't think the ciggie companies should be held liable, no matter how much they lied about cig's not being addictive. I think people dying from some ciggy related disease got what they deserved and shouldn't be trying to take it out on someone else for "bad business practices."
To quote D. Miller again, "Of COURSE it causes lung cancer, of COURSE it causes emphazema(sp?). It's FUCKING SMOKE! Do you stand outside by a camp fire every half hour and inhale big breaths?"
Sure they lied and cheated, but it's not their fault millions of idiots still buy cigarrettes.
Here's their rate chart for international calls
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Yeah but what self respecting jock will own up to /.?
"He's a geek!" "How do you know?" "Uh..."
I read somewhere a long time ago (I think it was an issue of Wizard: The Guide to Comics) that the attraction a reader had (They were tackling this same topic in the letters section) to Star Wars was the obviousness and absurdity of the entire series.
The villian is dressed in black and wears this grotesque head gear and has a rasping respirator with a deep sinister voice, so you know w/o a doubt that this guys a total bastard.
The Jedi wear their robes and such and have a strong belief in a mythical "Force" that symoblizies a spiritual existence that relates them to peaceful Monks not so far off from those of today and their ages old predecessors.
Then there are the aspects borrowed from ages old stories of good versus evil that have been around for years that are painted so obviously throughout the first 3 movies it's a nice escape from epics painted in subterfuge and guessing games. You know who's who, what's what and you get to sit and watch them kick the shit out of each other.
These guys are just pissed that Lucas (and I by no means praise George like a deity) put all these bits and pieces together and it became more popular than its predecessors.
Perhaps it was gleaned from other works but why should Lucas give credit to anyone? As far as I know the story of good vs. evil has been around in various forms long before even humans (Predator/Prey).
Quit bitching and just deal with the fact that it is what it is, you either like it or you don't. I do.
Hey just b/c our Governor can beat up your Governor doesn't mean you have to pick on him...
He pulled a pretty funny April Fools prank if you haven't heard. He had a press conference called hastily that morning (It was snowing quite hard) to announce he was running for Gov again, then said "April Fools." and left the room.
hahahahaha..tax money wasted no doubt but oh well