Your average Joe probably isn't using a 64 bit x86 chip either.
The supermarket around the corner seems to have a knack for selling Athlon 64 machines lately though. Nforce3, budget nvidia card, reasonable price, the kinda thing the average Joe would go for.
hmmmm...keyboards. Nothing like getting killed in a game after having neglected to save for a few hours...and then ramming the keyboard on top of the monitor a few times. Nothing like the pleasure of having to crawl around the place looking for loose keys...and then the greatest enjoyment: finding the proper layout of the keyboard on the web with a number of letters missing;-)
That's ok. In said situation you'd be eligible for a free pack of Microsoft(tm) Dental Replacements(R)(patent pending) free of charge with your automobile anyway. Besides, what else is the crank gonna be used for? Tis not like a Microsoft Automobile(tm) driver would know how to change the tires;-)
Well, just imagine the situation where the company you bought a car from was in a position where they were holding the car business by the throat, and effectively shoving the stereo down yours.
As for the EU, I'll take every little step as a sign of things to come. It may not be one of the biggest issues, but it is an issue. Now all we need is a version of XP without IE...and by that I mean a version where one can still update.
What if they had been paying, say, $10-$15 a year since then for support? Microsoft would have made more on them than the customer's initial purchase of Windows (assuming an OEM installed Windows, not Retail).
Assuming none of those customers had ever bothered to actually make use of said support. Callcenters are expensive...
it's like a shoulder-length rubber glove between me and the Win32 subsystem.
For one reason or another that brings up some very disturbing images in my mind...but then again, the windows 32 subsystem is a capricious little beastie.
Every other facet of Microsoft loses money other than Office and Windows.
Afaik xbox just crossed the line where it started bringing in more money than it costs(don't quite remember if that is across the whole line or just over 1 quarter tho). Without wanting to sound like an apologist, MS can afford to start up a project on a long term basis, as opposed to a lot of companies that can't seem to look beyond the next quarterly results. As for dropping prices on windows and office, well, they'd be making shitloads of money as opposed to huge shitloads maybe? Right now I doubt "staying afloat" is the proper term. Perhaps a decade from now things will be different...
sounds a bit like the whole courriel(sp?) thing a couple of years ago.
for those from outside france, at some point, think it was around the beginning of 2001, some smartass in the french government decided that from that point on, all usage of the word e-mail in official government texts was to be replaced by the newly invented word "courriel" which is basically a fancy way of saying courier electronique, electronic mail.
kinda pointless to try and eradicate a word that's been around for years...
so the french army uses Mandrake these days? *easy pun alert* my my, that sure explains a lot */easy pun*
all kidding aside, knowing the french they'd just love to be free of yet another (american) shackle. looks like they're ahead in the race to get rid of good ol'MS.
Nevertheless, If one has for an example a sleeping cycle of 2 hours, in quite a few cases it'd be better to sleep for 6 hours and then be woken up as opposed to sleeping 7 and having to drag oneself out of the middle of a REM phase. The point in your sleeping cycle during which one wakes up heavily affects how one feels at that moment.
*Ducks for the massive amounts of incoming woody comments*
So I guess you're not a linux fan, as all distributions are bundles of OS and apps
But does the distro break once you remove the apps? What MS is being accused of is that the car stopped working because they removed the cd player. Why, in this case, Word is considered part of the OS is beyond me though, but I won't be one to pass up a chance to bash MS...
That's what recently happened here in Zeeland, the Netherlands. The local cable provider has started offering a package for the hardcore christians around here(and when i say hardcore i mean it, the country of weed, hookers and tulips practically invented it) and it raised an uproar in the political landscape when exactly the kind of sites you mentioned also turned out to be banned. objective, educational sites about sexuality and in some cases specifically targetted towards youngsters with questions about homosexuality. if memory serves me well it even made the international news.
well, in a lot of european countries that *is* the case. most of the major ISP's explicitly advertise with how quick one can download music and movies. now uploading however, that's an entirely different story.
then again, xs4all has always been a bastion of open/free stuff, privacy and the continuing battle against "the man". God only knows what happens if my own ISP got one of these letters, they'd likely roll over straight away.
Because, if you're talking about an installer made for a dumb user (as tech ignorant as your grandmom), you're tending towards windoze
kidding right? press f6 if you need to load drivers for a raid or scsi controller? keep the filesystem fat32 or convert to ntfs? yah, i can just see granny work her way through that...a windows install from scratch is about as complicated as setting up something like redhat or mandrake.
mwah, those are all attributes that women think they can change. generally speaking i'd agree with them on points 4, 5 and 7, those are all a things a woman can greatly change a man in. as for the rest...well, i've seen it happen and i've seen people who seemed happy enough in that kind of situation.
(Personally I dislike the US government because of it, not the US people.)
Those same people we get to see on tv loudly cheering folks like George W.? The same electorate that put him into office 2 times in a row? The people choose their leaders, the people are to blame if the leaders are selected on criteria such as the color of their suit, the whiteness of their teeth and their ability to be upstanding, church-going(separation of church and state?), god-fearing citizens. I blame the people. And not just for voting Bush, but for accepting this ridiculous 2 party system for all this time. Thank *insert random deity* here I live in a country with at least 5 decently-sized parties.
dunno about you guys, but over here in windmill/tulip/clog land there's a set of very strict laws on how companies are supposed to handle and protect private data. pretty much any form that involves handing over personal information has to include a compliance with these laws, failure to do so or abide by these laws...well, you get the idea. so even though i willingly give my name and address to the supermarket, there is only so much they're allowed to do with it and there is a whole lot they *have* to do to protect it.
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Your average Joe probably isn't using a 64 bit x86 chip either.
The supermarket around the corner seems to have a knack for selling Athlon 64 machines lately though. Nforce3, budget nvidia card, reasonable price, the kinda thing the average Joe would go for.
and the best part is that while doing so she softly whispers in your ear "you missed a closing bracket there honey".
hmmmm...keyboards. Nothing like getting killed in a game after having neglected to save for a few hours...and then ramming the keyboard on top of the monitor a few times. Nothing like the pleasure of having to crawl around the place looking for loose keys...and then the greatest enjoyment: finding the proper layout of the keyboard on the web with a number of letters missing ;-)
perhaps that's the time it'll take for them to put an extra 20 folks on minimum wage on the phone to handle all the calls?
That's ok. In said situation you'd be eligible for a free pack of Microsoft(tm) Dental Replacements(R)(patent pending) free of charge with your automobile anyway. Besides, what else is the crank gonna be used for? Tis not like a Microsoft Automobile(tm) driver would know how to change the tires ;-)
well, exchanging cars for dollars = good. exchanging those same dollars for windows = bad.
Well, just imagine the situation where the company you bought a car from was in a position where they were holding the car business by the throat, and effectively shoving the stereo down yours.
As for the EU, I'll take every little step as a sign of things to come. It may not be one of the biggest issues, but it is an issue. Now all we need is a version of XP without IE...and by that I mean a version where one can still update.
What if they had been paying, say, $10-$15 a year since then for support? Microsoft would have made more on them than the customer's initial purchase of Windows (assuming an OEM installed Windows, not Retail).
Assuming none of those customers had ever bothered to actually make use of said support. Callcenters are expensive...
it's like a shoulder-length rubber glove between me and the Win32 subsystem.
For one reason or another that brings up some very disturbing images in my mind...but then again, the windows 32 subsystem is a capricious little beastie.
Every other facet of Microsoft loses money other than Office and Windows.
Afaik xbox just crossed the line where it started bringing in more money than it costs(don't quite remember if that is across the whole line or just over 1 quarter tho). Without wanting to sound like an apologist, MS can afford to start up a project on a long term basis, as opposed to a lot of companies that can't seem to look beyond the next quarterly results. As for dropping prices on windows and office, well, they'd be making shitloads of money as opposed to huge shitloads maybe? Right now I doubt "staying afloat" is the proper term. Perhaps a decade from now things will be different...
sounds a bit like the whole courriel(sp?) thing a couple of years ago.
for those from outside france, at some point, think it was around the beginning of 2001, some smartass in the french government decided that from that point on, all usage of the word e-mail in official government texts was to be replaced by the newly invented word "courriel" which is basically a fancy way of saying courier electronique, electronic mail.
kinda pointless to try and eradicate a word that's been around for years...
heh, I'm dutch, so unless the police switch to Spijker I think they'll stick with foreign cars :P
Too bad they stopped using the 911's tho, looked pretty impressive.
so the french army uses Mandrake these days? *easy pun alert* my my, that sure explains a lot */easy pun*
all kidding aside, knowing the french they'd just love to be free of yet another (american) shackle. looks like they're ahead in the race to get rid of good ol'MS.
Nevertheless, If one has for an example a sleeping cycle of 2 hours, in quite a few cases it'd be better to sleep for 6 hours and then be woken up as opposed to sleeping 7 and having to drag oneself out of the middle of a REM phase. The point in your sleeping cycle during which one wakes up heavily affects how one feels at that moment.
*Ducks for the massive amounts of incoming woody comments*
So I guess you're not a linux fan, as all distributions are bundles of OS and apps
But does the distro break once you remove the apps? What MS is being accused of is that the car stopped working because they removed the cd player. Why, in this case, Word is considered part of the OS is beyond me though, but I won't be one to pass up a chance to bash MS...
hmmm, I was under the impression the descendants of Caine were vampires...oh well, another dream shattered.
That's what recently happened here in Zeeland, the Netherlands. The local cable provider has started offering a package for the hardcore christians around here(and when i say hardcore i mean it, the country of weed, hookers and tulips practically invented it) and it raised an uproar in the political landscape when exactly the kind of sites you mentioned also turned out to be banned. objective, educational sites about sexuality and in some cases specifically targetted towards youngsters with questions about homosexuality. if memory serves me well it even made the international news.
did play the Tron 2.0 game a couple times through. quite entertaining as far as FPS go.
Set up an IRC server somewhere. The costs of a shell account are negligible and it's good fun to tinker around with.
well, in a lot of european countries that *is* the case. most of the major ISP's explicitly advertise with how quick one can download music and movies. now uploading however, that's an entirely different story.
then again, xs4all has always been a bastion of open/free stuff, privacy and the continuing battle against "the man". God only knows what happens if my own ISP got one of these letters, they'd likely roll over straight away.
Because, if you're talking about an installer made for a dumb user (as tech ignorant as your grandmom), you're tending towards windoze
kidding right? press f6 if you need to load drivers for a raid or scsi controller? keep the filesystem fat32 or convert to ntfs? yah, i can just see granny work her way through that...a windows install from scratch is about as complicated as setting up something like redhat or mandrake.
mwah, those are all attributes that women think they can change. generally speaking i'd agree with them on points 4, 5 and 7, those are all a things a woman can greatly change a man in. as for the rest...well, i've seen it happen and i've seen people who seemed happy enough in that kind of situation.
(Personally I dislike the US government because of it, not the US people.)
Those same people we get to see on tv loudly cheering folks like George W.? The same electorate that put him into office 2 times in a row? The people choose their leaders, the people are to blame if the leaders are selected on criteria such as the color of their suit, the whiteness of their teeth and their ability to be upstanding, church-going(separation of church and state?), god-fearing citizens. I blame the people. And not just for voting Bush, but for accepting this ridiculous 2 party system for all this time. Thank *insert random deity* here I live in a country with at least 5 decently-sized parties.
dunno about you guys, but over here in windmill/tulip/clog land there's a set of very strict laws on how companies are supposed to handle and protect private data. pretty much any form that involves handing over personal information has to include a compliance with these laws, failure to do so or abide by these laws...well, you get the idea. so even though i willingly give my name and address to the supermarket, there is only so much they're allowed to do with it and there is a whole lot they *have* to do to protect it.