Mark Johnson, CEO of Budweiser had this to say about the open source beer...
"We have conclusive results from independent studies that show the total cost of ownership for 'Our Beer' is 50% higher than Budweiser.
Brewers of Our Beer cost 25% more to employ and the maintenance associated with the women you bring home after drinking too much Our Beer is an outrageous %50! Thus, negating the initial reduced cost for the recipe."
"How about doing something useful, like aggressively shutting down phishing sites. You know, where criminals are trying to steal thousands of dollars from as many victims as possible?"
Just as soon as those victims includes the bigwigs at those "corporate entities" of which you speak.
... how bout something I can put some groceries in? Something I can take tke kids to baseball practice in? Hell how bout just something where I don't have to butter myself up and slide into? Did you see these things?:-)
"With the code-name 'Operation Site Down,' close to 100 searches were conducted globally (U.S., Canada, Israel, France, Belgium, Denmark, the Netherlands, United Kingdom, Germany, Portugal, and Australia) within a 24-hour period, resulting in the identification of 120 individuals who are likely to be pursued by the U.S. Department of Justice."
Damn! If only Osama had been running a Warez server!
Don't you think that the people that want Apple hardware will still buy Apple hardware?
Do you think this would convert all people over to non-Apple certified hardware? I'd be willing to bet that the majority of the current Apple supporters would still buy Apple hardware.
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I have/had three TiVos.
I loved TiVo when it came out and bought the lifetime subscription. I was pretty certain that it would be worth it, and it was. I think it paid for itself in like 2 or 3 years. Then, when my first unit died, I was able to transfer the lifetime subscription to another machine. That was nice.
Then, I bought another one for the basement. I wanted to get the lifetime subscription, but at the time they had a deal for the monthly fee and not for the lifetime service.
I did the math and I'd have to have the unit for like 4 or 5 years for it to be worth it. For multiple reasons, this was a little longer than I thought it might last so I got the monthly fee.
I really wanted the lifetime service and tried talking them into some kind of similar discount for the lifetime service. They wouldn't budge and probably lost out on a couple hundered bucks from me.
"Year-to-date for 2005, Microsoft has fixed 15 vulnerabilities affecting Windows Server 2003. In the same time period, for just this year, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 users have had to patch 34 vulnerabilities and SuSE Enterprise Linux 9 users have had to patch over 78 vulnerabilities."
Inorder for this to be received as a good thing for MS, you have to assume that there are a smaller number of vulnerabilities in Windows.:-)
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Mark Johnson, CEO of Budweiser had this to say about the open source beer ...
"We have conclusive results from independent studies that show the total cost of ownership for 'Our Beer' is 50% higher than Budweiser.
Brewers of Our Beer cost 25% more to employ and the maintenance associated with the women you bring home after drinking too much Our Beer is an outrageous %50! Thus, negating the initial reduced cost for the recipe."
Video googles? You did that on purpose. I know you did. I'm a fan, but I'm still not gonna let it slip.
- Kevin
"How about doing something useful, like aggressively shutting down phishing sites. You know, where criminals are trying to steal thousands of dollars from as many victims as possible?"
Just as soon as those victims includes the bigwigs at those "corporate entities" of which you speak.
- Kevin
... how bout something I can put some groceries in? Something I can take tke kids to baseball practice in? Hell how bout just something where I don't have to butter myself up and slide into? Did you see these things? :-)
- Kevin
"With the code-name 'Operation Site Down,' close to 100 searches were conducted globally (U.S., Canada, Israel, France, Belgium, Denmark, the Netherlands, United Kingdom, Germany, Portugal, and Australia) within a 24-hour period, resulting in the identification of 120 individuals who are likely to be pursued by the U.S. Department of Justice."
Damn! If only Osama had been running a Warez server!
Don't you think that the people that want Apple hardware will still buy Apple hardware?
Do you think this would convert all people over to non-Apple certified hardware? I'd be willing to bet that the majority of the current Apple supporters would still buy Apple hardware.
- Kevin
"if millions of home users stampede to emachines discount boxes for their os x platform then, apple's real source of revenue will dissappear."
What about the revenue from millions of OS X installations?
- Kevin
"What incentive would any of the Peers have to aprove the patent"
Maybe that they'll be on the other side of the process at some point?
- Kevin
... that the author of this article is not comparing Newton, Einstein, and Edison to Bill Gates. :-/
- Kevin
You've recently sustained prefrontal brain damage, haven't you? ;-)
- Kevin
"All the subjects understood the sarcasm except for those with damage to the prefrontal area, which is above the eye sockets and behind the forehead."
As opposed to the part of my brain in front of my forehead?
- Kevin
Actually, anyone stealing a shirt from Wallmart should be given some housing and a free meal. ;-)
- Kevin
... or does that wallpaper look dangerously familiar?
danger
- Kevin
You damn fool! Didn't you hear. The government has figured out how to penetrate tin foil.
We need to upgrade to titanium foil hats now!
But are you using your $0.10 Knoppix liveCD as an mp3 player? ;-)
- Kevin
I liked AltaVista, and I love Google.
I think one important thing that has not been mentioned is a catchy name, slogan, or logo.
It's not critical, but it can make a difference. It can keep things from being "forgotten".
- Kevin
Amen.
;-)
If you can say anything about Microsoft, it's that they are consistent.
- Kevin
They don't need to block them to crush them. They only need put forth their "best effort".
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From Cringely today, http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20050303
It really is a shame.
- Kevin
If you're really intent on getting a submission accepted, just submit this story again tomorrow around the same time. ;-)
- Kevin
Times they are a-changin' ... sing it with me!
- Kevin
I have/had three TiVos.
I loved TiVo when it came out and bought the lifetime subscription. I was pretty certain that it would be worth it, and it was. I think it paid for itself in like 2 or 3 years. Then, when my first unit died, I was able to transfer the lifetime subscription to another machine. That was nice.
Then, I bought another one for the basement. I wanted to get the lifetime subscription, but at the time they had a deal for the monthly fee and not for the lifetime service.
I did the math and I'd have to have the unit for like 4 or 5 years for it to be worth it. For multiple reasons, this was a little longer than I thought it might last so I got the monthly fee.
I really wanted the lifetime service and tried talking them into some kind of similar discount for the lifetime service. They wouldn't budge and probably lost out on a couple hundered bucks from me.
- Kevin
... on what your definition of the operator isNot, is. :-)
- Kevin
I bet his web cam didn't see the mugging his web server just took!
- Kevin
"They're just saying "don't expect to be able to use our bandwidth and download from us without being a customer first"."
;-)
If you buy Office and run it on Wine, you are a customer. Just not as lucrative a customer as they would like you to be.
- Kevin
"Year-to-date for 2005, Microsoft has fixed 15 vulnerabilities affecting Windows Server 2003. In the same time period, for just this year, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 users have had to patch 34 vulnerabilities and SuSE Enterprise Linux 9 users have had to patch over 78 vulnerabilities."
:-)
Inorder for this to be received as a good thing for MS, you have to assume that there are a smaller number of vulnerabilities in Windows.
- Kevin