The best way to lie to an ignorant person is to claim the other person is lying and hope they give up. You, however, have no argument, aside from showing yourself to be a pompous asshole who probably has some financial interest in Microsoft or consumer control in general. You can go on with your arrogant attitude but realize that your 500 posts on this topic will not change anyone's mind. You should go get a job spewing crap for a living, working for MS marketing or Fox News or something. Maybe then some of your audience will believe you. Maybe. Or at least get a life; there's more than/.
Oh, dollar signs go before numbers. Percent signs go after numbers.
You're just one of those idiots who doesn't understand CS. There's lots of 'em, even in the upper level CS classes I'm in, and it's obvious. When we have to use a special language to do an assignment, there are people that learn it (we have less than a week, usually) and write something that works properly, and there are people that still make basic syntax mistakes. I suspect you would be one of the latter, but I hope that you don't expect other people to take the path of the people who really don't get it. Everyone should try learning CS. Learning the language of the week is for people that can't cut it.
> Does Ford compete unfairly against Blaupunkt because their cars and trucks come with stereos installed?
Bad analogy. Ford does not control 90% of the car market, so it's choice of stereo systems to include does not harm Blaupunkt or the consumer. If Ford did control 90% of the car market, it would be likely that consumers would be forced to by a Ford for some other reason (Price, part compatibility, or such), and if Ford was like Microsoft, Ford dealers would not be able to substitute Blaupunkt stereos into the cars that they sell, in effect closing Blaupunkt out of 90% of the new car market.
Everything that Microsoft sells is bad, because buying it will give Microsoft money, which they will use to further dominate the software market. Once they have forced every computer to use their OS, the only people that will be able to write decent software for it will be MS, since they won't release critical useful parts of their API that allow Microsoft to do stuff with their software faster and better than software from other companies.
There are very specific reasons for boycotting Microsoft. The lower market share they have, the harder it will be for them to completely dominate the market. Coke, on the other hand, couldn't care less if one million fewer people bought Coke. They'd lay off some people, make less Coke, and continue to make a profit. So people who boycott Microsoft aren't boycotting "big evil corporations", they're boycotting Microsoft, for the reason that they don't want Microsoft to be in control of their computers. Coke doesn't control you brain (too much) when you drink it.
One might suppose that one should just not run Windows and continue to buy other Microsoft products, but giving Microsoft money in any form gives them more to spend on marketing, lawyers, as well as research and development. The first two are bad, since the help convince (sometimes forcefully) other people to run Windows. More money to R&D does mean better software (hopefully), but MS tends to spend its money expanding to new products and new markets (.NET or XBox).
In conclusion, we choose to boycott Microsoft not because it's a big evil corporation, but because of their specific business practices and the disappearance of choice in the software industry. It has nothing to do with consumerism, liberalism, Naderism, or one of those other left-wing "conspiracies" people like you pander on about. It's about freedom to use our computers and allowing other people the freedom to use their computers, even if they're not computer-savvy enough to understand what that means.
The army uses, from what I heard, visible lasers (relatively long range), along with more conventional stuff and judges that rule on injuries and splash damage and the like.
You are an idiot if you can't figure out how to do something like that with linux. Really. Just because you can't figure it out doesn't mean you need to be a rocket scientist to do it. Jeez.. saying that, it means you assume you're already pretty close to a rocket scientist, but I'm sure you aren't. In fact, I'm not sure I'd trust you to pump my gas.
It's really nice to see something that makes sense around here...Recently/.'s been taken over by the right, the pro-Microsoft, anti-"piracy" folks. Geez.. this place used to be a geek site, now it's look, I'm smart because I'm a right-wing jerk copying propaganda from some think-tank somewhere and acting all special because they're countering the "/. conspiracy"... gimme a break
You are an ultra right-wing piece of shit. The rich get their money by exploiting the poor. So getting money from rich people and giving it back to the poor isn't stealing.. it's justice.
The Super Orb's a piece of shit.. read the latest cooler reviews at www.anandtech.com or www.tomshardware.com... (Too lasy to make those into links.. hopefully your browser will do it for you..)
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This is great, but apparently I can't use it to operate my nuclear power plant's aircraft control tower. Damn.
10/23 is the significant part, and it's only interpretable in one way.
Yes, the only problem with it is that it SUCKS ASS.
It will probably refuse to work without the connection. That will definitely be cracked though.
Oh, dollar signs go before numbers. Percent signs go after numbers.
It's kind of like macrovision "quality protection".
malbolge.
You're just one of those idiots who doesn't understand CS. There's lots of 'em, even in the upper level CS classes I'm in, and it's obvious. When we have to use a special language to do an assignment, there are people that learn it (we have less than a week, usually) and write something that works properly, and there are people that still make basic syntax mistakes. I suspect you would be one of the latter, but I hope that you don't expect other people to take the path of the people who really don't get it. Everyone should try learning CS. Learning the language of the week is for people that can't cut it.
1stp
Yo Yo Ma's cello is worth $6M :) Does that mean it sounds 100 times better?
> Does Ford compete unfairly against Blaupunkt because their cars and trucks come with stereos installed?
Bad analogy. Ford does not control 90% of the car market, so it's choice of stereo systems to include does not harm Blaupunkt or the consumer. If Ford did control 90% of the car market, it would be likely that consumers would be forced to by a Ford for some other reason (Price, part compatibility, or such), and if Ford was like Microsoft, Ford dealers would not be able to substitute Blaupunkt stereos into the cars that they sell, in effect closing Blaupunkt out of 90% of the new car market.
Everything that Microsoft sells is bad, because buying it will give Microsoft money, which they will use to further dominate the software market. Once they have forced every computer to use their OS, the only people that will be able to write decent software for it will be MS, since they won't release critical useful parts of their API that allow Microsoft to do stuff with their software faster and better than software from other companies.
There are very specific reasons for boycotting Microsoft. The lower market share they have, the harder it will be for them to completely dominate the market. Coke, on the other hand, couldn't care less if one million fewer people bought Coke. They'd lay off some people, make less Coke, and continue to make a profit. So people who boycott Microsoft aren't boycotting "big evil corporations", they're boycotting Microsoft, for the reason that they don't want Microsoft to be in control of their computers. Coke doesn't control you brain (too much) when you drink it.
One might suppose that one should just not run Windows and continue to buy other Microsoft products, but giving Microsoft money in any form gives them more to spend on marketing, lawyers, as well as research and development. The first two are bad, since the help convince (sometimes forcefully) other people to run Windows. More money to R&D does mean better software (hopefully), but MS tends to spend its money expanding to new products and new markets (.NET or XBox).
In conclusion, we choose to boycott Microsoft not because it's a big evil corporation, but because of their specific business practices and the disappearance of choice in the software industry. It has nothing to do with consumerism, liberalism, Naderism, or one of those other left-wing "conspiracies" people like you pander on about. It's about freedom to use our computers and allowing other people the freedom to use their computers, even if they're not computer-savvy enough to understand what that means.
As much as I liked Marathon for its time, Half-Life is several generations ahead of it in graphics and gameplay.
The army uses, from what I heard, visible lasers (relatively long range), along with more conventional stuff and judges that rule on injuries and splash damage and the like.
10,000 meters > 30,000 feet; however, our bombers can and do fly higher than that.
Gee.. better quit my demolitions job and find something else..
If it takes you four frickin' hours to recompile your kernel you probably shouldn't bother playing games on that box in any case..
Yeah.. it never struck me as something hard to do....
You are an idiot if you can't figure out how to do something like that with linux. Really. Just because you can't figure it out doesn't mean you need to be a rocket scientist to do it. Jeez.. saying that, it means you assume you're already pretty close to a rocket scientist, but I'm sure you aren't. In fact, I'm not sure I'd trust you to pump my gas.
Actually you linked to the wrong thing.. You got some 1993 TV series..
It's really nice to see something that makes sense around here...Recently /.'s been taken over by the right, the pro-Microsoft, anti-"piracy" folks. Geez.. this place used to be a geek site, now it's look, I'm smart because I'm a right-wing jerk copying propaganda from some think-tank somewhere and acting all special because they're countering the "/. conspiracy"... gimme a break
LOL
You are an ultra right-wing piece of shit. The rich get their money by exploiting the poor. So getting money from rich people and giving it back to the poor isn't stealing.. it's justice.
The Super Orb's a piece of shit.. read the latest cooler reviews at www.anandtech.com or www.tomshardware.com ... (Too lasy to make those into links.. hopefully your browser will do it for you..)
Shut up you ignorant right-wing piece of shit.