Luddites are protesting the installation of machines in factories. They say manual labor is vital for their survival.
Fucking idiots. Instead of working with the industry on a micropayment systems that would allow me to buy books in electronic form at way less than $50 a piece (of which the author is lucky to receive $1) they will sabotage this stuff, and when it finally comes of age three or four years later they'll cite decreased revenues (of course, you morons) and "intellectual property violations".
Why is this obsession with living forever?
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I could understand when this is used to prolong the lives of people with extraordinary abilities (excluding ability to make money), but making a regular stupid CEO live forever is like wiping one's ass with a stack of hundred dollar bills. Not comfortable, insulting to the ones who are worse off, and utterly not necessary.
And then the next big boss comes in and shuts down the program. Kids quickly regain their lost weight and then some, while enjoying their ipods and xboxes (and twinkies, too)
I just hope it won't be George Lucas. Let's face it, Star Wars could have been 10 times more dramatic and interesting than it was, and George Lucas' storytelling and directing skills are pathetic. He's a good businessman, and a visionary, but that's where it ends, really. ROTS, while better than the previous two installments, falls short of what it could have been. The story of ROTS would barely fill 20 minutes of screen time if it wasn't for CG.
That's exactly the problem I've tried to underscore. As far as I'm concerned, diesel cars should be at least 30 percent of the cars sold, and I shouldn't have to pre-order them and wait for half a year.
Hey, VW, how about making diesel cars available in the US instead (I mean not just Golf and Beetle)? With the prices we're paying for gas right now, they'd sell like freakin' hot cakes.
No way! I don't remember when I bought anything but groceries, gas and movie tickets _not_ on the web. I also trade stocks, manage my bank account, bills, etc. completely online. The bubble has burst, but the technologies have stayed. If you recall, five years ago we didn't have much of what we have today in terms of e-commerce and e-everythingelse.
The "value" of pirated software is much lower than that. If you talk about "value" you kind of assume you'd be able to sell the same software to the same people for your MSRP. This just ain't so. The populace some of the listed countries is ridiculously poor. They aren't going to pay half a year's salary for office after spending their life's savings on a low-end PC.
There's no excuse for the Western countries, though. As ridiculous as it sounds, by pirating software made by large corporations you're helping those corporations to stay in the business. You see, you could have used alternatives and supported the people behind those alternatives. This would in turn generate competition and drive the prices down and quality up.
Space weapons can be shot down by ground-based high powered lasers or rockets. You can't protect these things flying up there, by design. This will happen within the first 10 minutes of any global conflict. So if you guys want to blow $100B on useless shit like this, please use your own, not taxpayers', money.
99.95% of people in China are too poor to afford US-priced licensed software, and software companies are unwilling to bring the price down.
It's not like I support piracy (heck, I make my living writing software), but let's face it, you aren't gonna plunk down one year's salary for a copy of Windows either.
Most of the software you're using is probably produced in India and tested in China. Office? Parts of it are produced in India. Windows? Same thing. Just about any piece of software now has foreign-developed components in it.
So I suggest your agency to dust off their abacuses.
They'll soon hit 200 million mark. I've downloaded firefox no less than 30 times myself. I have two machines at home, and four at work and on all firefox is the default browser. Plus, I download upgrades to each machine every time they come out.
Apple doesn't need KHTML folks anymore. The newest build of Safari is simply the best browser available on the Mac, compared to even Firefox. It does layout beautifully, it renders type beautifully, and it's FAST. Sooo, why would they need to port buggy amateurish crap from KHTML to threre?
I'm pretty sure they aren't completely sealed, and submerging them in oil can have negative effect on electrolyte (and therefore on all components that these capacitors filter the power for).
And in the end of it all Google will be dead
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Sad but true. Time and time again, Microsoft proved to the world that if it's really afraid of something, it will fight this "something" and win, no matter the cost.
The only thing they can't really win against is Linux, because it's free and it doesn't depend on influx of money to sustain itself.
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They're opening up the specs and associated software. Why TF does the processor need associated software, that's something I don't really understand.
Luddites are protesting the installation of machines in factories. They say manual labor is vital for their survival.
Fucking idiots. Instead of working with the industry on a micropayment systems that would allow me to buy books in electronic form at way less than $50 a piece (of which the author is lucky to receive $1) they will sabotage this stuff, and when it finally comes of age three or four years later they'll cite decreased revenues (of course, you morons) and "intellectual property violations".
I could understand when this is used to prolong the lives of people with extraordinary abilities (excluding ability to make money), but making a regular stupid CEO live forever is like wiping one's ass with a stack of hundred dollar bills. Not comfortable, insulting to the ones who are worse off, and utterly not necessary.
Google should help Slashdot with a technology that would help filter out ridiculous dupes like this one.
Except you didn't even have to press any buttons. The thing flew and landed all by itself.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buran
And then the next big boss comes in and shuts down the program. Kids quickly regain their lost weight and then some, while enjoying their ipods and xboxes (and twinkies, too)
I just hope it won't be George Lucas. Let's face it, Star Wars could have been 10 times more dramatic and interesting than it was, and George Lucas' storytelling and directing skills are pathetic. He's a good businessman, and a visionary, but that's where it ends, really. ROTS, while better than the previous two installments, falls short of what it could have been. The story of ROTS would barely fill 20 minutes of screen time if it wasn't for CG.
That's exactly the problem I've tried to underscore. As far as I'm concerned, diesel cars should be at least 30 percent of the cars sold, and I shouldn't have to pre-order them and wait for half a year.
I couldn't find Toureg with TDI in WA a couple of months ago. I doubt it's available now either.
Hey, VW, how about making diesel cars available in the US instead (I mean not just Golf and Beetle)? With the prices we're paying for gas right now, they'd sell like freakin' hot cakes.
No way! I don't remember when I bought anything but groceries, gas and movie tickets _not_ on the web. I also trade stocks, manage my bank account, bills, etc. completely online. The bubble has burst, but the technologies have stayed. If you recall, five years ago we didn't have much of what we have today in terms of e-commerce and e-everythingelse.
The "value" of pirated software is much lower than that. If you talk about "value" you kind of assume you'd be able to sell the same software to the same people for your MSRP. This just ain't so. The populace some of the listed countries is ridiculously poor. They aren't going to pay half a year's salary for office after spending their life's savings on a low-end PC.
There's no excuse for the Western countries, though. As ridiculous as it sounds, by pirating software made by large corporations you're helping those corporations to stay in the business. You see, you could have used alternatives and supported the people behind those alternatives. This would in turn generate competition and drive the prices down and quality up.
Space weapons can be shot down by ground-based high powered lasers or rockets. You can't protect these things flying up there, by design. This will happen within the first 10 minutes of any global conflict. So if you guys want to blow $100B on useless shit like this, please use your own, not taxpayers', money.
Should I sue them?
99.95% of people in China are too poor to afford US-priced licensed software, and software companies are unwilling to bring the price down.
It's not like I support piracy (heck, I make my living writing software), but let's face it, you aren't gonna plunk down one year's salary for a copy of Windows either.
Most of the software you're using is probably produced in India and tested in China. Office? Parts of it are produced in India. Windows? Same thing. Just about any piece of software now has foreign-developed components in it.
So I suggest your agency to dust off their abacuses.
I wouldn't be smiling either if the guy next to me picked $2B out of my pocket. :0)
They'll soon hit 200 million mark. I've downloaded firefox no less than 30 times myself. I have two machines at home, and four at work and on all firefox is the default browser. Plus, I download upgrades to each machine every time they come out.
I'd rather not have them live next door. Their curry smells real bad, and they ignore bathing for weeks.
Apple doesn't need KHTML folks anymore. The newest build of Safari is simply the best browser available on the Mac, compared to even Firefox. It does layout beautifully, it renders type beautifully, and it's FAST. Sooo, why would they need to port buggy amateurish crap from KHTML to threre?
One more, one less, doesn't make any difference at all.
I'm pretty sure they aren't completely sealed, and submerging them in oil can have negative effect on electrolyte (and therefore on all components that these capacitors filter the power for).
Tablet isn't quite PDA. So copying is quite obvious here.
Cupertino, start your copiers :-)
Sad but true. Time and time again, Microsoft proved to the world that if it's really afraid of something, it will fight this "something" and win, no matter the cost.
The only thing they can't really win against is Linux, because it's free and it doesn't depend on influx of money to sustain itself.