You are free to eat the fruit from any tree in the garden, but you must not eat from the Tree of Windows(TM) for when you eat of it you will surely die.
What about if some guy I don't even know has a link to the homepage of a former college instructor of mine, who has a "former students" section with a link to my homepage, which has a link to 2600, which has a link to DeCSS? Are the MPAA cops going to show up and cuff-n-stuff this guy for his Five Degrees of HTML Separation from Illegal Things?
Since when did this ever become a problem? So, Linux is not taking off in the gaming world. Big deal. I hardly see that as his fault. I like my bicycle, but I still drive my car, because it takes me to more places that I need to be. If the bicycle industry goes under, it's not my problem.
However, I did the math and came to this conclusion: If there were less people like him, the net effect on the precious Linux gaming world would be zero. Assume you started with 10 people like him, who are Windows(TM) gamers, but use Linux. Now assume all 10 of them spontaneously combusted. This doesn't *add* to the number of games being bought. We simply have 10 fewer people using computers.
I did even more math, and came to the conclusion that you, single handedly, could save the Linux gaming universe, by simply buying more games yourself. Good luck.
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The fight's not over, until the winner is tired.
Wasn't NASA concerned about safety after the space shuttle exploded? Was that just a temporary concern until people "forgot" about that little episode? Now that it's out of everyone's mind, it's business as usual? How typical.
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The fight's not over, until the winner is tired.
Everyone's always complaining about wasting tax payer's money. Spending millions to investigate the deeds of politicians is a waste of tax payer's money. Spending millions to fund the wars of other countries is a waste of tax payer's money. Spending money to keep me spam free is a refreshing use of my hard earned cash. Of course for something like this to work, people would have to sue en masse. Spammers are more than likely counting the risk to their pocketbook. If I send one million email, and get a 25% return and only a 2% sue rate, then I'm ahead of the game. They'll need to do something about repeat offenders. Similar to the "three strikes and you're out" law.
So here's another solution. If these spammers want to send me their documents, then they should pay a per monthly fee for me to store this information. I will incorporate and go into the documents storage business. I won't even have to advertise. Of course, just like the banks, we'll charge a $2 service charge when they decide they don't want to store on my system anymore and "withdraw" their email.
On the other hand, I've worked with databases for so long, I can't remember the last time I've had to write sort routines, lists or trees. Most of my data I deal with comes from ordered SQL queries. Many of the Active X controls handle things like this for you (treeviews, listviews, etc). Sure, I can still do them, but I can't be the only one in the same situation. In answer to the question of how many lines of code I've written, I once answered "As few as possible". I could tell he was unprepared for that answer, but he seemed impressed by it. Questions like that one are about as useful as other statistical numbers that get thrown around in interviews.
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How many other products that went into Windows can you name?
Jimmy Hoffa
Honest, Jim. Blue Screen Of Death is just an expression. Trust us.
You are free to eat the fruit from any tree in the garden, but you must not eat from the Tree of Windows(TM) for when you eat of it you will surely die.
But I'm not a witch. They dressed me like this.
Put an LCD under the transparent skin in your hand. Put a Linux system in your stomach. Now you're a walking open-source machine!
...or a Teletubbie.
What about if some guy I don't even know has a link to the homepage of a former college instructor of mine, who has a "former students" section with a link to my homepage, which has a link to 2600, which has a link to DeCSS? Are the MPAA cops going to show up and cuff-n-stuff this guy for his Five Degrees of HTML Separation from Illegal Things?
Truly you have a dizzingly intellect.
Someone pass the iocane please.
Since when did this ever become a problem? So, Linux is not taking off in the gaming world. Big deal. I hardly see that as his fault. I like my bicycle, but I still drive my car, because it takes me to more places that I need to be. If the bicycle industry goes under, it's not my problem.
However, I did the math and came to this conclusion: If there were less people like him, the net effect on the precious Linux gaming world would be zero. Assume you started with 10 people like him, who are Windows(TM) gamers, but use Linux. Now assume all 10 of them spontaneously combusted. This doesn't *add* to the number of games being bought. We simply have 10 fewer people using computers.
I did even more math, and came to the conclusion that you, single handedly, could save the Linux gaming universe, by simply buying more games yourself. Good luck.
---
The fight's not over, until the winner is tired.
Wasn't NASA concerned about safety after the space shuttle exploded? Was that just a temporary concern until people "forgot" about that little episode? Now that it's out of everyone's mind, it's business as usual? How typical.
-- The fight's not over, until the winner is tired.
Everyone's always complaining about wasting tax payer's money. Spending millions to investigate the deeds of politicians is a waste of tax payer's money. Spending millions to fund the wars of other countries is a waste of tax payer's money. Spending money to keep me spam free is a refreshing use of my hard earned cash. Of course for something like this to work, people would have to sue en masse. Spammers are more than likely counting the risk to their pocketbook. If I send one million email, and get a 25% return and only a 2% sue rate, then I'm ahead of the game. They'll need to do something about repeat offenders. Similar to the "three strikes and you're out" law. So here's another solution. If these spammers want to send me their documents, then they should pay a per monthly fee for me to store this information. I will incorporate and go into the documents storage business. I won't even have to advertise. Of course, just like the banks, we'll charge a $2 service charge when they decide they don't want to store on my system anymore and "withdraw" their email.
On the other hand, I've worked with databases for so long, I can't remember the last time I've had to write sort routines, lists or trees. Most of my data I deal with comes from ordered SQL queries. Many of the Active X controls handle things like this for you (treeviews, listviews, etc). Sure, I can still do them, but I can't be the only one in the same situation. In answer to the question of how many lines of code I've written, I once answered "As few as possible". I could tell he was unprepared for that answer, but he seemed impressed by it. Questions like that one are about as useful as other statistical numbers that get thrown around in interviews.