For a while in the 19th century, it was economically feasible to ship laundry from the United States to be done in China. (I'm scouring the web for a reference.)
""We read a Gartner Group report that said the Microsoft system was the simplest to use among the commercial vendors and that open-source toolkits weren't worth considering."
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A PowerPoint slide contained the magic word "Delhi". It turns out that most of the content editing and all of the programming work for OpenCourseware was done in India"
If we pay exhorbitant license fees for second-rate crapware with first-rate marketing, we don't have any money left to pay American programmers. Or apparently, even to hire American grad students.
Closed source == money migrates to the vendors
Open Source == money can be used to pay programmers.
Sort of like an 80's Batman villian "the Calculator" who learned how to defend against each superhero with each defeat. Soon he was seemingly invincible.
Actually, the idea of a foe that gets stronger each time it is resurrected sounds like a good ploy to me.
"The set of 23 problems was put forward by Prussian mathematician David Hilbert in 1900 as challenges for the 20th century. Three remain unsolved, numbers 6,8 and 16."
Looks like the 20th century FAILED IT!!!!
Awww crap, did I say that out loud?!!! I'm gonna get a karma burn for that!
"I had to do this to get Madden 2000 to run. Thats right, I had to crack it to use it. this was a game I had bought from the store. Now that's a problem.
Thanks DRM for making my life so much better."
You should have cracked the game, burned a copy and returned the original as defective. And THEN played the game!!!!
People like you are why the market hasn't solved the problem.
Well now, if they're : 1)corrupt and 2) incompetent, then we don't have anything to worry about! It's only a problem if one of those conditions is true!
"I guess they are trying to make it look so modern and sophisticated instead of a early 80's green mono monitor."
Used to be that American money was real honest-to-God GREENBACKS, not some funny, furrin looking fruit color with corporate logos on it.
Use to be that banks were always built, well, like banks, heavy, solid, safe looking hulking stone fortesses.
That's what the 80's green mono monitor always said to me. "We're interested in what's known and safe and secure, not flashy video ads to sell you stamps while you wait for your cash."
Now it's all "Did you see this week's twenty? It's got Jessica Lynch and a coupon for Chik-Fil-A on it!"
The whole reverse engineering of the CLOSED IBM PC BIOS and creating a de-facto OPEN STANDARD is what gave us the whole damn PC industry, driven by Moore's law, in the first place.
Do they really think that they can apply the model that FAILED IT for IBM and be successful?!!!!
SILLY ASSES.
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Weren't Phoenix at one point talking about building adware directly into the BIOS?!!!
"Windows, errr, the BIOS isn't done until Linux won't run!"
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"NCompass was bought by Microsoft awhile ago"
Dear God, are you two inferring that Gartner Group was right?!!! Talk about cognitive dissonance!
For a while in the 19th century, it was economically feasible to ship laundry from the United States to be done in China. (I'm scouring the web for a reference.)
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A PowerPoint slide contained the magic word "Delhi". It turns out that most of the content editing and all of the programming work for OpenCourseware was done in India"
If we pay exhorbitant license fees for second-rate crapware with first-rate marketing, we don't have any money left to pay American programmers. Or apparently, even to hire American grad students.
Closed source == money migrates to the vendors
Open Source == money can be used to pay programmers.
Which way do you want it?
My point being? Who says I have one?
That, and the fact that I have no imagination.
Contract out to a conservative Christian thinktank and sell them statistical reports on the amount of depravity on the net.
Oh, that's right, in America, we have a legal system, not a Justice system.
Actually, the idea of a foe that gets stronger each time it is resurrected sounds like a good ploy to me.
So, all the bad people get killed off, leaving only the good people to build a new society of Star Trek-like prosperity!
Looks like the 20th century FAILED IT!!!!
Awww crap, did I say that out loud?!!! I'm gonna get a karma burn for that!
Who authorized you to leave your cubical?!!!
Isn't that anticompetitive behavior?
Thanks DRM for making my life so much better."
You should have cracked the game, burned a copy and returned the original as defective. And THEN played the game!!!!
People like you are why the market hasn't solved the problem.
"The fabulous Slashdot moderation system -- brought to you by Diebold!"
Well now, if they're : 1)corrupt and 2) incompetent, then we don't have anything to worry about! It's only a problem if one of those conditions is true!
Used to be that American money was real honest-to-God GREENBACKS, not some funny, furrin looking fruit color with corporate logos on it.
Use to be that banks were always built, well, like banks, heavy, solid, safe looking hulking stone fortesses.
That's what the 80's green mono monitor always said to me. "We're interested in what's known and safe and secure, not flashy video ads to sell you stamps while you wait for your cash."
Now it's all "Did you see this week's twenty? It's got Jessica Lynch and a coupon for Chik-Fil-A on it!"
Yeah, but I'm not sure what you have in mind for those cables with the big nasty clamps on them. I'm not into that kinky stuff.
Yes, but they ended up getting accused for a crime they didn't commit. At least they TELL everybody that they're innocent!
You mean we're gonna call off offshoring CEO positions? Damn.
My favorite is calling directory assistance for a town and the person doesn't know the names of the major roads.
Yeah, but does it support OpenBoot? I want CPU-agnostic device drivers!
Do they really think that they can apply the model that FAILED IT for IBM and be successful?!!!!
SILLY ASSES.
"Windows, errr, the BIOS isn't done until Linux won't run!"
The Hitachi deck '133t because it does what it does in only 3 MB! heh heh!
Like running *nix from a floppy.