If he had a machine that could duplicate a car without affecting the original, he wouldn't be paying for engineering time of anyone, because the end product he's copying (the car) is already finished.
And no, even in that case it would not be thievery in my opinion, although the automakers would probably want to argue patent infringement and would send an army of lobbyists to washington to outlaw such duplication machines...
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Well, I can say that the Acer Aspire One netbooks are flying off the shelves here in Mexico, but sadly the Linux version is not available here.
So my netbook is counted as a windows sale, but the first thing I did was install Ubuntu Netbook Remix
What a name! It's like some kind of alien law firm.
Just thinking about that made a shiver run down my spine...
I remember Arthur C Clarke saying that Sci Fi is something that could happen, while fantasy is something that could never happen.
[ducks!]
Indeed... Richard, may God reward you for helping people remove annoyments out of their lives.
Whatever you do, don't press the button!
I was so brilliant, that I had to insert a crayon into my brain in order to be dumb and happy
I think my current desktop computer have more power then avg mainframe
from a decade ago...
I think your current desktop computer have not a grammar checker
Zillalisk!
Yeah, but if its by Apple, it won't be cheap (which is part of the "netbook" definition)
Hey, how soon til I get my cheap, touchscreen capable netbook with 10 hours of battery life?
I think you misunderstood the parent poster.
If he had a machine that could duplicate a car without affecting the original, he wouldn't be paying for engineering time of anyone, because the end product he's copying (the car) is already finished.
And no, even in that case it would not be thievery in my opinion, although the automakers would probably want to argue patent infringement and would send an army of lobbyists to washington to outlaw such duplication machines...
I go to starbucks for the "buy a small coffee, stay in a comfy chair with free electricity and wifi for hours" promotion
Three time faster? That's easy just change the colour of the text to red and add an antenna
An'More Daka!!!
I thought they "fixed" the brown desktop theme? There are blue desktop screenshots but that's for KDE or some such.
WORKSFORME
Ah, so that's why my Acer suddenly became so slow?
In my city, there are 11 subway lines, two light-rail lines, two enclosed-lane bus lines and literally hundreds of bus and minibus routes...
We still get awful gridlocks :(
Some years ago, Eddie Van Halen said that guitar playing "is not as hard as brain surgery"
Sometime later, he got an offer from a brain surgeon to trade some guitar lessons for some brain surgery lessons
So why aren't we, personally, planting 10 trees each year? Isn't that a carbon storage strategy, with free oxygen and built-in cooling?
Mod parent up. This is something we should be doing...
Now, if only Slashdot had that feature... Imagine having the option of deleting (or editing) a post for some 10-15 seconds
Bah, silly me... Slashdot still doesn't support accented characters!
Thank you, that was what I was looking for!
How's Grandma doing with her computer, almost a year after your journal posts?
"newer" polaroids? I thought they had become extint long ago, like the Dodo bird
FUCKING HELL is that an embedded video I see in the story!? Holy shit, the geek website is ... in step with the times?
Yeah, I thought the same thing, but then I thought "Nah, the slashdot crowd will complain about it"
Ah, you must be talking about the mythical "Aunt Tilly"
Please provide some proof of these Grandmas' existence... I would like to see some actual seniors using Linux
I was under the impression that Linux installs on netbooks are gradually disappearing, replaced by Windows XP
Please tell me if you have other, more encouraging information
I have used Linux as my only desktop since 2006 (dualbooted from 1999 to 2006)
I have never used WINE