I sure as hell hope you only use IBM computers. What you say? You do not (it'd be particularly ironic if you use a Compaq)? Then where do you get off as saying that reverse engineering is somehow wrong.
Besides, plenty of Americans despise MS as well. Taking MS down in any fashion is similiar to taking down Capone on tax evasion. We know they are guilty of a lot, but we will go with whatever we can prove.
There are studies that show that moderate use of beer or wine is beneficial. A more relaxed attitude towards sex leads to a healthier happier person. Unless you have a caffeine free life and take no pain relievers, you really should shut up about drugs.
Besides these were not younger teenagers, but adults. They are allowed to vote, die for thier country, and depending on age and jurisdiction drink.
It also does not address whether the participants were likely to willingingly skew the results.
I mean, c'mon, we are talking about a bunch of immature males that just got asked to play games. I remember when I was in college, I would probably intentionally skew the results if I was in such a study.
However, SuSE was one of the founders of the RPM spec. Caldera was also involved. Caldera doesn't really matter anymore since the whole SCO fiasco, and the only other Caldera derived distro was Lycoris.
And TurboLinux was not designed from the ground up, it was based off of Red Hat. Mandrake and Conectiva (which became Mandriva) are RH derived. Gentoo is conceptually related to LFS. Vector is designed to be a Small Linux, and Slax is derived from Slackware. Linspire and Xandros are siblings being both derived from CorelOS, itself a Debian derivative. I am pretty sure Julex and Puppy are Slackware derived.
And everytime you rush something out the door, you have huge problems later on. Ever hear of a stitch in time saves nine? Rush something and you will forever be fixing it.
The way I read it is that the Linux people they found would not rush something out the door. You typical Linux admin will want to go thorugh a rigourous testing phase and write up some scripts to automate all the regular process, while a Windows admin will slap something together and shout "It boots so it works". Managers are often pennywise and pound foolish so wil go after the Windows option.
Additionally, they probably had unrealistic expectations of expertise. Most Linux admins would be willing to learn on the job, but you need to allow a bit of time to learn. Of course, thier current admins could have RTFM to learn on the job, but...
Actually, that is about 120 thousand years, not 50 thousand, but the earliest hominids are about 700,000 to 1 million years back. If we go by longest survival and not current survival, humans are not in the same league as the dinosaurs, and sharks are probably the winners on both counts. Crocodiles probably come in second place.
I saw recently that Jenna Haze's annual salary is $150k. That is with being several dozen movies. Now compare that to the average Hollywood movie star per picture salary. Though if you calculate a per hour figure, there is a bit more parity.
The average porn video cost to produce is in the thousands, not millions.
Tyranny of the majority. Do Windows users constitute greater than 50% of the voting public? Are Mac and Linux users unaminous on thier opinion of political subjects? I doubt you could get just the people that show up at a LUG to agree on abortion. Voting is not an option here.
24 goes into 60 how many times? Try 2 and 2/3. Yeah right there is no data loss there. It may not be a significant amount but from what I have seen it is.
Where's the purple color scheme? The only useful innovative apps for Windows are games. Why else would you want to dual boot a mac into a lesser OS like Windows? Otherwise you would put a good OS like Linux.
The problem is that software gets two IP protections. If software only had patents and no copyright the field would stagnate. If there was just copyrights but no Patents then things would be much the same but no Patent trolls.
Paul's idea that if you are against software patents you are against patents is just wrong. I as I am against unfair double protection.
In 2004, it was Spiderman that made them money. Sony is lieterally too diverse for any single product to sink them. It is the same reason that Microsoft will not buy them. A) Microsoft does not have enough money to buy Sony, at least if you are talking about the whole megacorp. (And I do mean that in the Shadowrun sense. The only way they could be more diverse is if they bought Honda and Kraft foods.) B) Too many groups would be opposed to the merger: Dell, HP, and most other computer manufacturers, the other RIAA members, the other MPAA members, the EU, Japan, and maybe the US Gov.
If you want a fast connection your choices are your cable co, telco (there may be one or more DSL providers but they are all dependant on the telco) and maybe a highspeed Cellular service that's outrageously priced.
For instance I don't have to have Earthlink for an ISP, but I will still be dependant on Sprint for DSL. I may change who handles email and who bills me, but I still will be on Sprint's lines, and subject to thier whims.
If you use Gmail with POP3/SMTP access, then yes. I do it myself Mozilla Mail and the enigmail extension. I guess technically it is GPG, but what's the difference?
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I sure as hell hope you only use IBM computers. What you say? You do not (it'd be particularly ironic if you use a Compaq)? Then where do you get off as saying that reverse engineering is somehow wrong.
Besides, plenty of Americans despise MS as well. Taking MS down in any fashion is similiar to taking down Capone on tax evasion. We know they are guilty of a lot, but we will go with whatever we can prove.
Where's are our analog DVD players and HDTV sets? Oh that's right, they don't exist and probably never will.
There are studies that show that moderate use of beer or wine is beneficial. A more relaxed attitude towards sex leads to a healthier happier person. Unless you have a caffeine free life and take no pain relievers, you really should shut up about drugs.
Besides these were not younger teenagers, but adults. They are allowed to vote, die for thier country, and depending on age and jurisdiction drink.
It also does not address whether the participants were likely to willingingly skew the results.
I mean, c'mon, we are talking about a bunch of immature males that just got asked to play games. I remember when I was in college, I would probably intentionally skew the results if I was in such a study.
Do you really think the average Taco Bell amanager let alone regular employees are sharp enough to notice a few missing tacos?
Don't you mean SePoohroth?
However, SuSE was one of the founders of the RPM spec. Caldera was also involved. Caldera doesn't really matter anymore since the whole SCO fiasco, and the only other Caldera derived distro was Lycoris.
And TurboLinux was not designed from the ground up, it was based off of Red Hat. Mandrake and Conectiva (which became Mandriva) are RH derived. Gentoo is conceptually related to LFS. Vector is designed to be a Small Linux, and Slax is derived from Slackware. Linspire and Xandros are siblings being both derived from CorelOS, itself a Debian derivative. I am pretty sure Julex and Puppy are Slackware derived.
And everytime you rush something out the door, you have huge problems later on. Ever hear of a stitch in time saves nine? Rush something and you will forever be fixing it.
The way I read it is that the Linux people they found would not rush something out the door. You typical Linux admin will want to go thorugh a rigourous testing phase and write up some scripts to automate all the regular process, while a Windows admin will slap something together and shout "It boots so it works". Managers are often pennywise and pound foolish so wil go after the Windows option.
Additionally, they probably had unrealistic expectations of expertise. Most Linux admins would be willing to learn on the job, but you need to allow a bit of time to learn. Of course, thier current admins could have RTFM to learn on the job, but...
The increasing entropy levels are pretty consistent too.
Actually, that is about 120 thousand years, not 50 thousand, but the earliest hominids are about 700,000 to 1 million years back. If we go by longest survival and not current survival, humans are not in the same league as the dinosaurs, and sharks are probably the winners on both counts. Crocodiles probably come in second place.
I saw recently that Jenna Haze's annual salary is $150k. That is with being several dozen movies. Now compare that to the average Hollywood movie star per picture salary. Though if you calculate a per hour figure, there is a bit more parity.
The average porn video cost to produce is in the thousands, not millions.
Tyranny of the majority. Do Windows users constitute greater than 50% of the voting public? Are Mac and Linux users unaminous on thier opinion of political subjects? I doubt you could get just the people that show up at a LUG to agree on abortion. Voting is not an option here.
Have you considered making Linux ports? If it is a true Mac OSX port and Windows port, the effort of adding in Linux should not be that great.
I would recommend checking out LinuxGames, Linux Game Tome, and TuxGames.
If you do write a Linux game, I recommend packaging it in the Loki Install Wizard.
24 goes into 60 how many times? Try 2 and 2/3. Yeah right there is no data loss there. It may not be a significant amount but from what I have seen it is.
Funny, maybe you are unaware of this definition.
You are in violation of federal law if you smelt a coin. I believe it is a felony.
Of course if you sold used items for more than what you paid for them, then that is income and needs to be reported to the IRS.
But Truthfully, the IRS is concerned about the money market accounts that function like bank accounts in paypal.
Where's the purple color scheme? The only useful innovative apps for Windows are games. Why else would you want to dual boot a mac into a lesser OS like Windows? Otherwise you would put a good OS like Linux.
The problem is that software gets two IP protections. If software only had patents and no copyright the field would stagnate. If there was just copyrights but no Patents then things would be much the same but no Patent trolls.
Paul's idea that if you are against software patents you are against patents is just wrong. I as I am against unfair double protection.
In 2004, it was Spiderman that made them money. Sony is lieterally too diverse for any single product to sink them. It is the same reason that Microsoft will not buy them. A) Microsoft does not have enough money to buy Sony, at least if you are talking about the whole megacorp. (And I do mean that in the Shadowrun sense. The only way they could be more diverse is if they bought Honda and Kraft foods.) B) Too many groups would be opposed to the merger: Dell, HP, and most other computer manufacturers, the other RIAA members, the other MPAA members, the EU, Japan, and maybe the US Gov.
How many are not 56k dialup or slower?
If you want a fast connection your choices are your cable co, telco (there may be one or more DSL providers but they are all dependant on the telco) and maybe a highspeed Cellular service that's outrageously priced.
For instance I don't have to have Earthlink for an ISP, but I will still be dependant on Sprint for DSL. I may change who handles email and who bills me, but I still will be on Sprint's lines, and subject to thier whims.
If you use Gmail with POP3/SMTP access, then yes. I do it myself Mozilla Mail and the enigmail extension. I guess technically it is GPG, but what's the difference?
Heck, I still have a Hotmail account from before it was owned by Microsoft. That was before I even had an ISP.
Are you buying the CD in a Music store? Or have you heard it on the radio? Then almost asurredly it is an RIAA label.