I played in the 2000 World Bridge Olympiad and a few of the players were selected for drug testing in accordance to the Olympic rules, as Bridge will also be included as a demonstration sport in the 2002 Winter Olympics.
When everyone is forced to subscribe, does this mean that Microsoft will no longer have to develope new versions of their products, since money is going to come in anyway? Everyone knows that Microsoft currently developes new versions of their product so that people will spend money on upgrading, this is their only way of squeezing money out of the customers they already have.
You would probably see layoffs in software engineers in Microsoft and more people hired in the sales department to track all the subscriptions, send out the invoices, and ensuring that those customers who have stopped paying the subscription are no longer running M$ softwares.
And in a couple of years, other alternatives will quickly catch up and become better than whatever M$ can offer, and the whole world wakes up and realise that M$ is bad and open source software is good.
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In other news, these other games have been delayed again until *insert random date in the future*
1. Duke Nukem Wait Forever
2. Daikatana II
3. Battlecruiser 2002AD
I don't know how, but I'm pretty sure that 'violating the DMCA' will eventually come up as the charge.
I played in the 2000 World Bridge Olympiad and a few of the players were selected for drug testing in accordance to the Olympic rules, as Bridge will also be included as a demonstration sport in the 2002 Winter Olympics.
...but has Linux been ported over to this yet?
19 July 2001: Compiled kernel 2.4.6
21 July 2001: Compiled kernel 2.4.7
22 July 2001: Installed Slackware 8.0
23 July 2001: Recompiled kernel 2.4.7
25 July 2001: Compiled kernel 2.4.8
27 July 2001: Installed Redhat 8.0
28 July 2001: Recompiled kernel 2.4.8
31 July 2001: Installed Slackware 8.1
2 August 2001: Compile kernel 2.4.9 etc...
Sure it's fun being a 1337 linux user.
When everyone is forced to subscribe, does this mean that Microsoft will no longer have to develope new versions of their products, since money is going to come in anyway? Everyone knows that Microsoft currently developes new versions of their product so that people will spend money on upgrading, this is their only way of squeezing money out of the customers they already have. You would probably see layoffs in software engineers in Microsoft and more people hired in the sales department to track all the subscriptions, send out the invoices, and ensuring that those customers who have stopped paying the subscription are no longer running M$ softwares. And in a couple of years, other alternatives will quickly catch up and become better than whatever M$ can offer, and the whole world wakes up and realise that M$ is bad and open source software is good.