Yes, you're the only one. Bad analogy. MS isn't charging for this software and there exist plenty of alternatives. Neither MS itself involved in exploiting and damaging its clients' systems.
I really doubt that 99% do that. I have a whole bunch of friends who are in college who read slashdot. Most of them own laptops which can't be built. Of those who own desktops, only -some- had built them but there are still a lot who still just go out and buy Dell (and sometimes Mac) desktops.
You can go on their web site and find 3 different prices for the exact same thing depending on which unit you go in, and I mean home, small business, and large.
Add to those cathegories "Higher Education Institutions", "Higher Education Students, Faculty, and Staff", "Health Care", and "Government" (although these are harder to fake than say when you're a home user pretending to be running a business and vicevesa.)
I bought my current home desktop 4 years ago from Dell. It came preinstalled with RedHat Linux 7.1. This was one of the last Dell Dimension desktop PCs that came preinstalled with Linux before they stopped offering Linux desktop to end-users. I am looking toward buying more Windows-less desktops from Dell in future.
Let's say I write a CGI script implemented in an interpreter distributed under GPL 3 and/or my CGI script calls such an open source program. Does this mean, I have to distributed the CGI script source code?
Most MBA schools want you take a few years off before entering their MBA programs. So, you might as well get an engineering degree before going for an MBA.
If I needed to backup a laptop, I'd just buy a $30 external USB or Firewire enclosure and a hard drive and look for software that can do incremental backups. Having an additional hard drive inside of laptop spinning all the time only adds more cost, weight, and power consumption..
The story title implies that the books had been replaced by some other (supposedly digital) resource, which is not true. The only reason this particular UT library branch does not have books is because they transferred the books to another library on the same campus, so technically, the library still has the books. Large universities like UT Austin have massive libraries with multiple branches on the same campus, so they can afford to empty one of the branches and make it into some sort of laptop lounge.
I really doubt that the high tech gear in the US military depends on components made in China (or any country other than UK and Israel perhaps) to give it the edge that it has right now.
but a single launch vehicle is a lot less costly than shuttle maintenance and I don't think it's worth it launching either to 'maintain' a satelite that costs a fraction of that mission. Take a look at this article:
surely, these people somehow afford to eat and pay for rent in some area of SF but they can't pay $15/month for basic ADSL or $10 or so for dial-up? Come on? How many people are in position of having a $200 PC and not being able to afford for internet access? They can also use a public library.
Given that one can get $15/month SBC ADSL service in the area, I am not really sure what's the justification for this project as far as removing the "digital divide" goes. Someone who spent a $500 on a PC can probably afford $15/month and it's gonna work a lot better than wireless. I think the city is simply wasting money here.
I bet this new generation chip is a basically glorified Pentium M with 64-bit and multi-core as well as some additional DRM support. Nice but not really revolutionary.
So, what happens if I use perl6 to run a script that has neither "package" nor "class" statements in it. How is it going to decide which language is that?
If you were in CS in academia in the 90s you were most likely raised on Sun Solaris and perhaps DEC Unix and not BSD. Nowdays, those are installations are being actively replaced with Linux.
Much of the userland utilities are made by GNU project and GNU -was- meant to be one OS. Just because they package things individually, doesn't mean it's not a well thought out system.
Where are you living? Your area must be a real bandwidth ghetto compared to California. I am living in SF Bay Area and pay $50/month for 1500/768Kbps WorldCom ADSL service. There are no bandwidth limits whatsoever and you get a static IP with it. Installation is free and you can pay only $40/month with a yearly contract. May friends in Texas pay about $40/month for a similar (cable) service in Texas.
I think you're mostly right with the car industry analogy except for this.
Already Chrysler is history, and we are all just wondering whether Ford or GM will be next to go.
Perhaps Chrysler is a history as an independent US corporation but it is not history in its function as the North American branch of Daimler Chrysler after merging (some say being taken over by) with Mercedes Benz. Last year, was the first year Chrysler not only finished in blue ink but they also turned a decent profit. And recently (before the loss making discounts of GM and Ford) they were the only company to gain a significan market share together with some Japanese and Korean rivals. This revival is probably due to introduction of a few new attractive models such as Crysler 300M or Dodge Charger (which surely were designed with the help of their German bosses). This demonstrates that even North American car makers and strive and make profits as long as their design cars that don't suck.
So, you think it is wise of Apple to force the developers to support a LESS CONVENIENT by making the more convenient interface (context menus) so hideous to use with Apple's default mouse?
Nonsense, most Mac applications I have used ALREADY make an extensive use of context menus, just like their Windows counterparts do and I find myself using them all the time. I am tired of being forced to reach the hideous keyboard just because I want to "save link as.." or "copy link location" in firefox, for example. I think context menus are a good thing but Apple made them so hideous on MacOS by denying users a second mouse button.
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Yes, you're the only one. Bad analogy. MS isn't charging for this software and there exist plenty of alternatives. Neither MS itself involved in exploiting and damaging its clients' systems.
Is the hard drive still 4200 RPM? I think it's very annoying. They could at lest use a 5400RPM HD.
I really doubt that 99% do that. I have a whole bunch of friends who are in college who read slashdot. Most of them own laptops which can't be built. Of those who own desktops, only -some- had built them but there are still a lot who still just go out and buy Dell (and sometimes Mac) desktops.
You can go on their web site and find 3 different prices for the exact same thing depending on which unit you go in, and I mean home, small business, and large.
Add to those cathegories "Higher Education Institutions", "Higher Education Students, Faculty, and Staff", "Health Care", and "Government" (although these are harder to fake than say when you're a home user pretending to be running a business and vicevesa.)
I bought my current home desktop 4 years ago from Dell. It came preinstalled with RedHat Linux 7.1. This was one of the last Dell Dimension desktop PCs that came preinstalled with Linux before they stopped offering Linux desktop to end-users. I am looking toward buying more Windows-less desktops from Dell in future.
Let's say I write a CGI script implemented in an interpreter distributed under GPL 3 and/or my CGI script calls such an open source program. Does this mean, I have to distributed the CGI script source code?
Most MBA schools want you take a few years off before entering their MBA programs. So, you might as well get an engineering degree before going for an MBA.
Where did you find that Soyuz TMA is a 60s relic?
Who said that each and every course that you have to take at the universities must be relevant to a particular type of job?
If I needed to backup a laptop, I'd just buy a $30 external USB or Firewire enclosure and a hard drive and look for software that can do incremental backups. Having an additional hard drive inside of laptop spinning all the time only adds more cost, weight, and power consumption..
The story title implies that the books had been replaced by some other (supposedly digital) resource, which is not true. The only reason this particular UT library branch does not have books is because they transferred the books to another library on the same campus, so technically, the library still has the books. Large universities like UT Austin have massive libraries with multiple branches on the same campus, so they can afford to empty one of the branches and make it into some sort of laptop lounge.
I really doubt that the high tech gear in the US military depends on components made in China (or any country other than UK and Israel perhaps) to give it the edge that it has right now.
but a single launch vehicle is a lot less costly than shuttle maintenance and I don't think it's worth it launching either to 'maintain' a satelite that costs a fraction of that mission. Take a look at this article:
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http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2001/80
Even though it had been written before the Columbia and Challenger disasters, its author was able to foresee many of shuttle's current problems.
surely, these people somehow afford to eat and pay for rent in some area of SF but they can't pay $15/month for basic ADSL or $10 or so for dial-up? Come on? How many people are in position of having a $200 PC and not being able to afford for internet access? They can also use a public library.
Given that one can get $15/month SBC ADSL service in the area, I am not really sure what's the justification for this project as far as removing the "digital divide" goes. Someone who spent a $500 on a PC can probably afford $15/month and it's gonna work a lot better than wireless. I think the city is simply wasting money here.
I bet this new generation chip is a basically glorified Pentium M with 64-bit and multi-core as well as some additional DRM support. Nice but not really revolutionary.
So, what if I have Perl 5 code without package statement.
So, what happens if I use perl6 to run a script that has neither "package" nor "class" statements in it. How is it going to decide which language is that?
If you were in CS in academia in the 90s you were most likely raised on Sun Solaris and perhaps DEC Unix and not BSD. Nowdays, those are installations are being actively replaced with Linux.
Much of the userland utilities are made by GNU project and GNU -was- meant to be one OS. Just because they package things individually, doesn't mean it's not a well thought out system.
Where did you get the idea than ports system is easier to use than say up2date or apt-get?
Where are you living? Your area must be a real bandwidth ghetto compared to California. I am living in SF Bay Area and pay $50/month for 1500/768Kbps WorldCom ADSL service. There are no bandwidth limits whatsoever and you get a static IP with it. Installation is free and you can pay only $40/month with a yearly contract. May friends in Texas pay about $40/month for a similar (cable) service in Texas.
I think you're mostly right with the car industry analogy except for this.
Already Chrysler is history, and we are all just wondering whether Ford or GM will be next to go.
Perhaps Chrysler is a history as an independent US corporation but it is not history in its function as the North American branch of Daimler Chrysler after merging (some say being taken over by) with Mercedes Benz. Last year, was the first year Chrysler not only finished in blue ink but they also turned a decent profit. And recently (before the loss making discounts of GM and Ford) they were the only company to gain a significan market share together with some Japanese and Korean rivals. This revival is probably due to introduction of a few new attractive models such as Crysler 300M or Dodge Charger (which surely were designed with the help of their German bosses). This demonstrates that even North American car makers and strive and make profits as long as their design cars that don't suck.
So, you think it is wise of Apple to force the developers to support a LESS CONVENIENT by making the more convenient interface (context menus) so hideous to use with Apple's default mouse?
Nonsense, most Mac applications I have used ALREADY make an extensive use of context menus, just like their Windows counterparts do and I find myself using them all the time. I am tired of being forced to reach the hideous keyboard just because I want to "save link as.." or "copy link location" in firefox, for example. I think context menus are a good thing but Apple made them so hideous on MacOS by denying users a second mouse button.