I LOVE this style of debate. I believe it is reminicent of the Schrodingers "Neener Neener" strategy.
The massive zionist conspiracy!!
Here are some goals of those dastardly Jews:
Don't let anyone read the Protocols of Zion, we wouldn't want our secrets getting out. BTW, does anyone know when the next grave yard meeting is.. I didn't get my invite this month.
Matzah. I Love matzah, the way it constipates me, and tastes allot like saw dust! But we can't make it without gentile blood, arab blood is best because they believe in the "REAL" G_d.
Steal land from the gentiles! I would like to rethink this idea at the next "Zionist Conspiracy Social". Do we really need to mess with the arabs? They have all that oil... such a fuss, when we could take France with a boyscout troop and a few swiss army knives.
Take over the media. Mostly I'd like to do this just so we can stop showing XMass specials in October. Making Saudies and their palls look like blood thirsty tyrants, and revising history to make the whole world believe that the Holocost wiped out 6 million of us (do you think they will ever find that resort we put all of our buddies in the south pacific?)
Banks Banks Banks!! Guys, if we own all the banks why can't I get a loan??!?!?!
Fine, your worried about the media in this country?
Let's lay it out.
I LIVE in Israel.
I see what goes on every day. My friends are in the army, and it's my family that lives with the fear that for no good reason, we could die at any moment.
Sure, there are kids in the Israeli army that act like jerks. And it happens... in every military. Remember the IDF is compulsory, not voluntary. Everyone servers, and that meens the jerks too.
There are few extremists who want to see dead Arabs. But I have to say.. there are an awfull lot of Arabs that want to see dead Jews.
I've seen these setelments... I just don't get the fuss. With a few exceptions the setelments are usually seperated by over a kilometer from palastinian setelments (yes they have setlements too).
And while were talking about arab setelments, what about Hebron? It was a major jewish city until 1928, when arab rioters just ran through town killing thousands. The british solution to the problem was to make it illegal for jews to live in Hebron.. Now, for the first time in 1600 years, all religions are allowed to visit the holly sights in Hebron.
BTW: before you decide that Arafat deserves his nobel prize, keep in mind most palastinians don't want him. There terified of him. He's killed more of his own people in this last 3 months (political purges) than the IDF (by more than twice)!!
Go to Israel. Walk thorugh the forests, and the parks. Go pray at what ever church, mosqe, or synagog you like. Then realize that this wasn't possible before 1948. There were no forests. There were no jobs. And if you weren't a particular kind of Muslim, you were likley to get linched.
The US has been under international treaty, banning development of missel defense systems. No matter how much money the US has they aren't really allowed to do the work..
On the other hand Israel has no such treaties. Israel is the US's only ally capable enough to develop such a technolgy, without the usuall red tape.
BTW: That AWACS plane was purchased from Boieng as a special order 747. All of the radar equipment and hi-tech was added while IN Israel, by the IAI.
And what would be the problem if they did sell it? Big deal. It's a defensive weapon. If it finaly made the missel obsolete, and prevented one country from bombarding the other from miles away.. Hoorah!!
We've all been wondering how we could possible effect the political process to defend against the likes of Disney and Microsoft.
Let this be a wake up call to the senet./. them!! Over load their phones till they melt. Flood their snail mail and email. Let them know there is an active body of individuals who are pro-GPL, and will not stand for any more DMCA legislation.
Even if this isn't true, and it is. These congressmen are on a Technology subcomittie. It's time for/. to ring the door bell, and let them know were here, and we vote.
First off, the appeals never showed that J. Penfield demonstrated bias BEFORE the trial began. The apeals point out that interviews "early" in the trial show that he as already siding with the prosecution. FOR SHAME!!!
Keep in mind that was AFTER those MS monkeys rigged a demonstration of their software, bribed witnesses, and been caught purgering themselves more than once. I'd be bias too!!
And as long as the bias developed durring the case, what difference should it make? Isn't that what Judges are supposed to do?
Granted, talking to the media was unecesary, and maybe Penfiled had some "Edo" envy, but I don't see how it is wrong. It's not as though national secrets were at issue, or MS was being slandered (no one trusts them anyway).
I'm not looking for a witch hunt (is Bill heavier than a duck?), but Penfiled was right. His rulling was taken away from him on the basis of politics and bribes.
first off 100mbit switches are not expensive, and 100mb suposedly can support upto 30 machines (the terminals them selves can have 10mb NICs). So use one Server per 30 terminals, and the Servers have two network cards w/o hard drives allowing them access to a central Boot Server. Maintenance should ammount to replacing dumb terminals, rebooting "servers". All administration can be done on the central boot server.
Pentium one class PCs with monitors are running less than $60 now. And they do pretty well at drawing pretty pictures on the screen. You can buy them up my the dozens and replace them just as easily. Especialy good when your dealing with college kids that tend to be rough on public equipment. (Imagine the faces of some moron who tries to steal one!!)
Like I said, as an organizer it will do just fine. But little else.
Map and news paper cost me $5 at a news stand (especialy in Manhattan, and even then the maps are usually free).
I'm talking about real funtionality. If you had a low powered computer strapped to your hip at all times what would you want it to do? You have to justify spending $100, when $10 will do.
Beep when you had an apointment? OK, but there are hundreds of lowcost devices that already do that.
Keep phone numbers? See above.
Scribble notes? I prefer papper thankyou. It's more reliable (it only breaks when I get it wet, but so does a PDA)
What I really would want are things like:
Translators e-books (think library, or tech manuals, while you are on a job) wireless internet (IM, EMAIL, syncronicity with an Exchange server) Educational software (for those rediculously long trips) Telnet/http connections to a remote server (serve maintenance)
For the most part, you need much more expensive units to do this. And for the life of me I don't know why! It should be a cake walk to build a system that could let you plug in a wireless network device (isn't that why we invented USB?), or more memmory.
Why wouldn't it be cheaper to build a system that has NO features but is just an infastructure for plugged in addons?
With only 2 meg of RAM it's not going to be worth much more than an organizer. And you can buy those now for $20 (and some look much cooler than this).
Personaly for my tastes just sell me the husk, and let me buy the memmory as an option. I would think that a unit with NO memmory would be cheaper to manufacture and the modularity would allow it to have a wider market apeal (for the same manufactureing line).
I agonize over buying a laptop for 2 months, and then 5 hours after I decide they come out with one that can run for 3 times as long...
For an encore I intend to learn 4 dead programming languages, get a job at an internet company just before they go under, and commit suicide 10 minuets before they announce my winning lottery ticket.
Ahh who cares, in 3 years they will discover methanol fuel cells cause cancer.
The important part of the question was that he let's the steam escape (to prevent explosions).
Water boils at 212F (sea level, but I suspect if he's on a volcano, he may be cooking way above sea level).
Water is also one hell of a coolant. As long as steam is escaping, and the lava doesn't directly come in contact with the bird (conduction), then the chicken is only being steamed. Max temperature (for most any place but the Dead Sea) 212F.
Broiling is a dry heat cooking method. And temperatures GREATLY exceed 212F.
It's the same reason you can put pasta on a red hot stove, and it doesn't burn... untill you run out of water.
Those who say they see no difference between minimum wage and slavery, deserve to feal the end of a whip on their hides. -- Paraphrased from the FISH (quoteing someone far more notable)
Yeah, RedHat is competative. That doesn't make it like MS. RH is a for profit company with investors, so it will do what it has to for money, suprisingly they have always stuck close by the OS crouds and keep on contributing. Dominanance does not make them evil, behaviour does.
MS could be a benificent leader of the industry, but instead has chosen tyranical lead, in no ones intrest but their own. That is the difference, RH is the Linux leader, but when they make decisions they still consider the consumer, and the OS community, not simply their personal desires for world domination.
"Ummmm any company in the world is small relative to MS. You aren't making a point."
Point being that to call Lindows a small company is an inacurate statement. Most software companies are small by nature (the more developers you add to a project, the longer it takes). MS is a gross exception, and that's who he seems to be comparing against. When making a relative statement, it's dangerous to leave it open ended.
Language has to be specific. If not, you might as well just grunt and point.
"Looks much like outlook to me.. See most people that read that viewed it in its appropriate context. You are nitpicking"
How is diferentiating between a Desktop and an E-Mail program "Nitpicking"?!?!?!?
"Read most people are usually cheap in markets like this. This isn't FUD, if you read the article in it's context it's referred to several other times. As for subscriptions models to "services". They don't keep any of the companies you spoke of afloat."
Would you call a dentist who doesn't hire someone else to do his kids braces cheap? Or a lawyer who has his friend do his legal work? No you wouldn't. Why should a person who knows about StarOffice (and in this example doesn't need anything more) buy Office? Why should some one who doesn't need tech support pay for it? That's not cheap, that's practicle. Plenty of companies have made money off of Open Source, but it requires a different business modle. Just because companies that try to execute classic buisness plans in Open Source fail, doesn't meen there is no, or even less, money to be made in OpenSource. It's a problem awaiting a solution, and a number of companies have already found solutions.
"The Linux operating system, and other 'open source'"... "I don't even know what this is? What does OS X have to do with the above?"
OSX is built on top of OpenSource(FreeBSD).
"Windows is still running on the vast majority of PCs. OS X runs on MACs what exactly is the correlation"
Buy a Mac and find out. Lot's of people make the switch. And wether you realize it or not, Mac's are personal computers, even if they aren't Personal Computers (caps, proper name, get it?).
There is verry little you can do in Windows you can't do on a Mac (or indeed on Linux). The market is becomming more and more OS agnostic. Deal with it.
"you nitpick and disect and take things outta the context"
Percisley my point. Plus I also feel that if a "journalist" is going to write an article, they should at least be competant in the material. There were so many problems, errors, and inacuracies in it that the author was either ignorant or intentionaly biasing the article. I was pointing out a FEW of those errors as proof of my point.
BTW: I'm not being hostill here or anything, but have you ever used (for a length of time) anything other than DOS/Windows?
Truly the SlashDot summary is worse than the MSNBC article.
But the MSNBC article is riddled with factual inacuracies, slanted language, and selective omissions.
"Small software makers like Lindows are trying to help desktop users bridge that divide." Small? Relative to what? MS? GM and CocaCola are small compared to MS!
"A Linux-based open-source program called Evolution looks pretty much like a standard Windows desktop."
What on earth does Evolution have to do with the desktop? Other than being made by the folks at GNOME?
"WalMart recently began selling a house brand PC at rock bottom prices -- available with Linux for the thriftiest PC buyers."
Read Cheap. It's an old FUD, that linux users are cheap, and wont spend money. If that's true go talk to the folks at Ximian who get monthly subscriptions, just for better connection speeds (and of corse StarOffice!). Or about SlashDot subscribers. Truth is that Linux users (curently) arent' cheap, they are just very educated, and know what not to waste their money on. Give them a product worth paying for and they WILL pay for it.
(of course that meens producing quality product and such, most of the corporate world seems to be of the notion that if you advertise something enough the sheeple will buy it)
"Home users are cheap," he said. "At $49.95, you're going to have to sell a whole lot of (copies) to make it in the market."
Totaly out of context. This has as much to do with Windows as it does with Linux. Home users don't have 3 grand to blow on an acounting package, but last I checked Intuit was doing OK.
"The Linux operating system, and other "open source" alternatives written by devoted bands of volunteer programmers, would be available to anyone for the cost of a download. But today, Windows is still running on the vast majority of PCs. So what happened?"
Look, I'm rather happy about the fact that my TV doesn't have a "boot time". It always works. Really, every day. It doesn't need extra memmory if I want to watch the latests Star Wars, and it NEVER CRASHES! As a matter of fact, the only things more reliable than my TV in my house is my carpet and toilet paper. (seriously, even a door knob breaks more often than a TV!)
I DO NOT WANT M$ ON MY TV!!! It works great people, it does everything it was ever intended to do! Don't F#CK with it!!
All these crappy little PDA's with 32mg of ram, could be used for real work if they could store some serious data. 5gb of swapable HD would be a nice start.
This is a PCMCIA card, what else could you put in there? A wireless NIC, to connnect you to a music server?
Great idea when you think about it. It's like a verry highlevel for of XFree86. The work is done on a server and transmited to a PDA or Tablet. It also uses ultra low bandwidth (they claim) so it could be realy handy for "the computer is the network" schemes. Imagine a MS that sells you a wireless(cell based) tablet PDA. They could theoreticly be running the software in redmond, while your using your PDA on a wireless network. If the processor requirements are low, they could actually make a pretty inexpensive version.
The reverse is true too. This tech claims to be OS agnostic. People wouldnt be able to tell the real difference between using OS apps and MS apps, and they platform the work on would be irrelevent (besides trying to pry the data you "own" from MS cold dead servers).
I'm biased though, I've alwasy liked remote X-Client systems. Putting all of the burden on a few central NOCs rather then forcing every customer to perpetually upgrade.
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Karma Hoe... shoot. Let's try again..
Kram War
darn it!
Sheesh, it's one think to whore when the server is getting/.'d but it's not even close!
Now, posting mirror sights for the packages that may be something.
Slashdot Mirror
I LOVE this style of debate. I believe it is reminicent of the Schrodingers "Neener Neener" strategy.
The massive zionist conspiracy!!
Here are some goals of those dastardly Jews:
Don't let anyone read the Protocols of Zion, we wouldn't want our secrets getting out. BTW, does anyone know when the next grave yard meeting is.. I didn't get my invite this month.
Matzah. I Love matzah, the way it constipates me, and tastes allot like saw dust! But we can't make it without gentile blood, arab blood is best because they believe in the "REAL" G_d.
Steal land from the gentiles! I would like to rethink this idea at the next "Zionist Conspiracy Social". Do we really need to mess with the arabs? They have all that oil... such a fuss, when we could take France with a boyscout troop and a few swiss army knives.
Take over the media. Mostly I'd like to do this just so we can stop showing XMass specials in October. Making Saudies and their palls look like blood thirsty tyrants, and revising history to make the whole world believe that the Holocost wiped out 6 million of us (do you think they will ever find that resort we put all of our buddies in the south pacific?)
Banks Banks Banks!! Guys, if we own all the banks why can't I get a loan??!?!?!
Fine, your worried about the media in this country?
Let's lay it out.
I LIVE in Israel.
I see what goes on every day. My friends are in the army, and it's my family that lives with the fear that for no good reason, we could die at any moment.
Sure, there are kids in the Israeli army that act like jerks. And it happens... in every military. Remember the IDF is compulsory, not voluntary. Everyone servers, and that meens the jerks too.
There are few extremists who want to see dead Arabs. But I have to say.. there are an awfull lot of Arabs that want to see dead Jews.
I've seen these setelments... I just don't get the fuss. With a few exceptions the setelments are usually seperated by over a kilometer from palastinian setelments (yes they have setlements too).
And while were talking about arab setelments, what
about Hebron? It was a major jewish city until 1928, when arab rioters just ran through town killing thousands. The british solution to the problem was to make it illegal for jews to live in Hebron.. Now, for the first time in 1600 years, all religions are allowed to visit the holly sights in Hebron.
BTW: before you decide that Arafat deserves his nobel prize, keep in mind most palastinians don't want him. There terified of him. He's killed more of his own people in this last 3 months (political purges) than the IDF (by more than twice)!!
Go to Israel. Walk thorugh the forests, and the parks. Go pray at what ever church, mosqe, or synagog you like. Then realize that this wasn't possible before 1948. There were no forests. There were no jobs. And if you weren't a particular kind of Muslim, you were likley to get linched.
Try hard and think!
The US has been under international treaty, banning development of missel defense systems. No matter how much money the US has they aren't really allowed to do the work..
On the other hand Israel has no such treaties. Israel is the US's only ally capable enough to develop such a technolgy, without the usuall red tape.
BTW: That AWACS plane was purchased from Boieng as a special order 747. All of the radar equipment and hi-tech was added while IN Israel, by the IAI.
And what would be the problem if they did sell it?
Big deal. It's a defensive weapon. If it finaly made the missel obsolete, and prevented one country from bombarding the other from miles away.. Hoorah!!
We've all been wondering how we could possible effect the political process to defend against the likes of Disney and Microsoft.
Let this be a wake up call to the senet.
Over load their phones till they melt. Flood their snail mail and email. Let them know there is an active body of individuals who are pro-GPL, and will not stand for any more DMCA legislation.
Even if this isn't true, and it is. These congressmen are on a Technology subcomittie. It's time for
The article talks about how most of the software is too outdated to run on Windows 2000.... errr... isn't Windows 2000 out of date?
Last I checked MS was dropping support for it.
Only the military.
First off, the appeals never showed that J. Penfield demonstrated bias BEFORE the trial began. The apeals point out that interviews "early" in the trial show that he as already siding with the prosecution. FOR SHAME!!!
Keep in mind that was AFTER those MS monkeys rigged a demonstration of their software, bribed witnesses, and been caught purgering themselves more than once. I'd be bias too!!
And as long as the bias developed durring the case, what difference should it make? Isn't that what Judges are supposed to do?
Granted, talking to the media was unecesary, and maybe Penfiled had some "Edo" envy, but I don't see how it is wrong. It's not as though national secrets were at issue, or MS was being slandered (no one trusts them anyway).
I'm not looking for a witch hunt (is Bill heavier than a duck?), but Penfiled was right. His rulling was taken away from him on the basis of politics and bribes.
Thanks!! Great info!
If you layer the network it should work fine.
first off 100mbit switches are not expensive, and 100mb suposedly can support upto 30 machines (the terminals them selves can have 10mb NICs). So use one Server per 30 terminals, and the Servers have two network cards w/o hard drives allowing them access to a central Boot Server. Maintenance should ammount to replacing dumb terminals, rebooting "servers". All administration can be done on the central boot server.
Pentium one class PCs with monitors are running less than $60 now. And they do pretty well at drawing pretty pictures on the screen. You can buy them up my the dozens and replace them just as easily. Especialy good when your dealing with college kids that tend to be rough on public equipment. (Imagine the faces of some moron who tries to steal one!!)
Like I said, as an organizer it will do just fine. But little else.
Map and news paper cost me $5 at a news stand (especialy in Manhattan, and even then the maps are usually free).
I'm talking about real funtionality. If you had a low powered computer strapped to your hip at all times what would you want it to do? You have to justify spending $100, when $10 will do.
Beep when you had an apointment? OK, but there are hundreds of lowcost devices that already do that.
Keep phone numbers? See above.
Scribble notes? I prefer papper thankyou. It's more reliable (it only breaks when I get it wet, but so does a PDA)
What I really would want are things like:
Translators
e-books (think library, or tech manuals, while you are on a job)
wireless internet (IM, EMAIL, syncronicity with an Exchange server)
Educational software (for those rediculously long trips)
Telnet/http connections to a remote server (serve maintenance)
For the most part, you need much more expensive units to do this. And for the life of me I don't know why! It should be a cake walk to build a system that could let you plug in a wireless network device (isn't that why we invented USB?), or more memmory.
Why wouldn't it be cheaper to build a system that has NO features but is just an infastructure for plugged in addons?
With only 2 meg of RAM it's not going to be worth much more than an organizer. And you can buy those now for $20 (and some look much cooler than this).
Personaly for my tastes just sell me the husk, and let me buy the memmory as an option. I would think that a unit with NO memmory would be cheaper to manufacture and the modularity would allow it to have a wider market apeal (for the same manufactureing line).
I agonize over buying a laptop for 2 months, and then 5 hours after I decide they come out with one that can run for 3 times as long...
For an encore I intend to learn 4 dead programming languages, get a job at an internet company just before they go under, and commit suicide 10 minuets before they announce my winning lottery ticket.
Ahh who cares, in 3 years they will discover methanol fuel cells cause cancer.
They should sue...
After all English is a living language...
No not even I can defend this.
Just have the kids steal a report off the web with proper English and let it be.
While I revile in so many ways everything that they stand for... I can't say that I've ever had a problem with their hardware.
I love my MS Ergo Keyboard (even mapping the MS key's work for me in Linux). I've never found a better KB by anyone. (or for nearly as cheap).
Their joysticks are good too. Sometimes even sexy.
Granted these are simple things, and I'm sure that I'm going to Hell for giving money to MS, but it does us no credit to pick on them with no reason.
Let them fail miserably at this task, then we can hate them for it. until then I have no shortage of complaints for MS bashing.
The important part of the question was that he let's the steam escape (to prevent explosions).
Water boils at 212F (sea level, but I suspect if he's on a volcano, he may be cooking way above sea level).
Water is also one hell of a coolant. As long as steam is escaping, and the lava doesn't directly come in contact with the bird (conduction), then the chicken is only being steamed. Max temperature (for most any place but the Dead Sea) 212F.
Broiling is a dry heat cooking method. And temperatures GREATLY exceed 212F.
It's the same reason you can put pasta on a red hot stove, and it doesn't burn... untill you run out of water.
Ain't science grand?
Those who say they see no difference between minimum wage and slavery, deserve to feal the end of a whip on their hides.
-- Paraphrased from the FISH (quoteing someone far more notable)
Yeah, RedHat is competative. That doesn't make it like MS. RH is a for profit company with investors, so it will do what it has to for money, suprisingly they have always stuck close by the OS crouds and keep on contributing. Dominanance does not make them evil, behaviour does.
MS could be a benificent leader of the industry, but instead has chosen tyranical lead, in no ones intrest but their own. That is the difference, RH is the Linux leader, but when they make decisions they still consider the consumer, and the OS community, not simply their personal desires for world domination.
"Ummmm any company in the world is small relative to MS. You aren't making a point."
...
Point being that to call Lindows a small company is an inacurate statement. Most software companies are small by nature (the more developers you add to a project, the longer it takes). MS is a gross exception, and that's who he seems to be comparing against. When making a relative statement, it's dangerous to leave it open ended.
Language has to be specific. If not, you might as well just grunt and point.
"Looks much like outlook to me.. See most people that read that viewed it in its appropriate context. You are nitpicking"
How is diferentiating between a Desktop and an E-Mail program "Nitpicking"?!?!?!?
"Read most people are usually cheap in markets like this. This isn't FUD, if you read the article in it's context it's referred to several other times. As for subscriptions models to "services". They don't keep any of the companies you spoke of afloat."
Would you call a dentist who doesn't hire someone else to do his kids braces cheap? Or a lawyer who has his friend do his legal work? No you wouldn't. Why should a person who knows about StarOffice (and in this example doesn't need anything more) buy Office? Why should some one who doesn't need tech support pay for it? That's not cheap, that's practicle. Plenty of companies have made money off of Open Source, but it requires a different business modle. Just because companies that try to execute classic buisness plans in Open Source fail, doesn't meen there is no, or even less, money to be made in OpenSource. It's a problem awaiting a solution, and a number of companies have already found solutions.
"The Linux operating system, and other 'open source'"
"I don't even know what this is? What does OS X have to do with the above?"
OSX is built on top of OpenSource(FreeBSD).
"Windows is still running on the vast majority of PCs. OS X runs on MACs what exactly is the correlation"
Buy a Mac and find out. Lot's of people make the switch. And wether you realize it or not, Mac's are personal computers, even if they aren't Personal Computers (caps, proper name, get it?).
There is verry little you can do in Windows you can't do on a Mac (or indeed on Linux). The market is becomming more and more OS agnostic. Deal with it.
"you nitpick and disect and take things outta the context"
Percisley my point. Plus I also feel that if a "journalist" is going to write an article, they should at least be competant in the material. There were so many problems, errors, and inacuracies in it that the author was either ignorant or intentionaly biasing the article. I was pointing out a FEW of those errors as proof of my point.
BTW: I'm not being hostill here or anything, but have you ever used (for a length of time) anything other than DOS/Windows?
Assets
Liquid Capital
Market Capitalization
Market Share * Market Value
etc...
there is a 299 and a 399 availble only naked or with Lindows, however the models beyond that are identical in both hardware and software.
If they are saving money by selling a system without Windows, it doesn't seem to show.
take a closer look at the WalMart PCs. They also sell them with Windows installed. Exact same prices (in some cases a buck or two cheaper).
Truly the SlashDot summary is worse than the MSNBC article.
But the MSNBC article is riddled with factual inacuracies, slanted language, and selective omissions.
"Small software makers like Lindows are trying to help desktop users bridge that divide."
Small? Relative to what? MS? GM and CocaCola are small compared to MS!
"A Linux-based open-source program called Evolution looks pretty much like a standard Windows desktop."
What on earth does Evolution have to do with the desktop? Other than being made by the folks at GNOME?
"WalMart recently began selling a house brand PC at rock bottom prices -- available with Linux for the thriftiest PC buyers."
Read Cheap. It's an old FUD, that linux users are cheap, and wont spend money. If that's true go talk to the folks at Ximian who get monthly subscriptions, just for better connection speeds (and of corse StarOffice!). Or about SlashDot subscribers. Truth is that Linux users (curently) arent' cheap, they are just very educated, and know what not to waste their money on. Give them a product worth paying for and they WILL pay for it.
(of course that meens producing quality product and such, most of the corporate world seems to be of the notion that if you advertise something enough the sheeple will buy it)
"Home users are cheap," he said. "At $49.95, you're going to have to sell a whole lot of (copies) to make it in the market."
Totaly out of context. This has as much to do with Windows as it does with Linux. Home users don't have 3 grand to blow on an acounting package, but last I checked Intuit was doing OK.
"The Linux operating system, and other "open source" alternatives written by devoted bands of volunteer programmers, would be available to anyone for the cost of a download. But today, Windows is still running on the vast majority of PCs. So what happened?"
So what is OS X?
Nah, no one uses Mac...
Look, I'm rather happy about the fact that my TV doesn't have a "boot time". It always works. Really, every day. It doesn't need extra memmory if I want to watch the latests Star Wars, and it NEVER CRASHES! As a matter of fact, the only things more reliable than my TV in my house is my carpet and toilet paper. (seriously, even a door knob breaks more often than a TV!)
I DO NOT WANT M$ ON MY TV!!! It works great people, it does everything it was ever intended to do! Don't F#CK with it!!
All these crappy little PDA's with 32mg of ram, could be used for real work if they could store some serious data. 5gb of swapable HD would be a nice start.
This is a PCMCIA card, what else could you put in there? A wireless NIC, to connnect you to a music server?
Great idea when you think about it. It's like a verry highlevel for of XFree86. The work is done on a server and transmited to a PDA or Tablet. It also uses ultra low bandwidth (they claim) so it could be realy handy for "the computer is the network" schemes. Imagine a MS that sells you a wireless(cell based) tablet PDA. They could theoreticly be running the software in redmond, while your using your PDA on a wireless network. If the processor requirements are low, they could actually make a pretty inexpensive version.
The reverse is true too. This tech claims to be OS agnostic. People wouldnt be able to tell the real difference between using OS apps and MS apps, and they platform the work on would be irrelevent (besides trying to pry the data you "own" from MS cold dead servers).
I'm biased though, I've alwasy liked remote X-Client systems. Putting all of the burden on a few central NOCs rather then forcing every customer to perpetually upgrade.
Karma Hoe...
/.'d but it's not even close!
shoot. Let's try again..
Kram War
darn it!
Sheesh, it's one think to whore when the server is getting
Now, posting mirror sights for the packages that may be something.
Since when did I do any of this?
"You" is inapropriate, since at no point did I say "We".
I am an American citizen. The fact that I'm a jew does not meen I'm an Israeli. It is a curios asumption.
Your right, time for this to end. How about a quote from one of the greatest humanitarians and crusaders for human rights in history?
"Be carefull sir when you refer to ani-zionism, for it is just another name for anti-semitism" - The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 1968