well it's just part of the evolution. people would still pay for artists music but differently - ie, song books, tabs, and live gigs. they'd still buy their albums if they think it's still worth it so that they can support their artists. if it's 'bad', people arent going to buy the CDs, simple as that. it puts the artists more pressure into better song writing for the songs in the albums, and better performance live. not just robbing them $200 per lip-syncing concert ticket.
engineers making these devices deserve making money just as well.
when you leave the page a javascript popup asks: microsoft's conducting a survey. would you like to participate? everything's gonna be 'rigged' with the slashdot effect...:D
actually win2k pro's the last one i use. it's just stabler. never crashes. there's a lot of bloat though. i disabled "windows file protection" and wiped out outlook express and a bunch of junk.
office 2000's alright. officeXP's too slow and bloated. hell, i think even office97's enough for the job actually. just probably some graphic filters that it might not have.
``The distance between what we have and what the free software has is greater today than it's ever been,'' he said. The new Office product's biggest competitors, he said, were its predecessors, most recently Office XP, released two years ago
that's correct, the distance is greater because it's lagging further and further behind than opensource free software.
finally we've reached version 3 in the enterprise series. in a few years we should be expecting redhat enterprise 3 for workgroups, 95, 98, 2000, XP, Lornhorne.. Way to go! sooner or later we'll be able to block others from forwarding our emails too in upcoming office releases!
Microsoft's greatest value to customers is building these features into the core operating system, he contended. "We essentially take cost and complexity out of the system... as opposed to having to force our customers to cobble them together themselves," he said. "That is part of the open source world, the customer puts things together. We think part of our value proposition has to be we have to take a lot of that effort out. N
Wrong. You take the "cost and complexity" out of 3rd party software, so instead of the money going into other company's accounts, it goes into your own pockets.
As for 'putting things together' in the open source world, doing apt-get isnt harder than popping CDs in and doing installations. We do the putting together because we like to customize rather than being forced stuff down our throats. People order from a menu at the restaurant because they want to choose what they eat.
In addition, Microsoft spends about $6.9 billion a year in R&D to improve its software, an effort that could not be funded under an open-source model, Ballmer said. "Most people who are putting their software under open source are doing so because it hasn't been very successful when it was sold. Why not make it free?"
That's right, $6.9 million dollars spent by your company in R&D that would multiply your security holes exponentially. Now that's money very well spent.
You're talking about software not being successful? The entire Concordia University's EE labs run either unix or linux. Openoffice, (surprise, surprise!) is opensource and everyone's been able to hand in their project reports and papers. Software that hadnt been successful... what kind of bullshit is that. You have a guy like this as an exec at Microsoft... we now know what kind of products you guys spit out.
"if there are problems and people do have security issues, I'm SteveB@microsoft.com. They know where to send e-mail and give somebody a hard time about it."
Students Find $100 Textbooks Cost $50, Purchased Overseas By TAMAR LEWIN
Published: October 21, 2003
ichard Sarkis and David Kinsley were juniors at Williams College, surfing the net for a cheap source for their economics textbook, when they discovered a little known economic fact: the very same college textbooks used in the United States sell for half price -- or less -- in England.
Just like prescription drugs, textbooks cost far less overseas than they do in the United States. The publishing industry defends its pricing policies, saying that foreign sales would be impossible if book prices were not pegged to local market conditions.
But many Americans do not see it that way. The National Association of College Stores has written to all the leading publishers asking them to end a practice they see as an unfair to American students.
"We think it's frightening, and it's wrong, that the same American textbooks our stores buy here for $100 can be shipped in from some other country for $50," said Laura Nakoneczny, a spokeswoman for the association. "It represents price-gouging of the American public generally and college students in particular."
But thanks to the Internet, more and more individual students and college bookstores are starting to order textbooks from abroad -- and a few entrepreneurs, including Mr. Sarkis and his friends, have begun what are essentially arbitrage businesses to exploit the price differentials.
"We couldn't understand why what costs $120 here should cost $50-something there," said Mr. Sarkis, who, with Mr. Kinsley and another classmate, has spent three years building a Web-based company, BookCentral.com, selling textbooks from abroad to students in the United States. "It seemed so sleazy of the publishers. We were sure that college students would be shocked and outraged if they knew about the foreign prices. But it's been this big secret."
That is changing, though. To the despair of the textbook publishers who are still trying to block such sales, the reimporting of American texts from overseas has become far easier in recent years, thanks both to Internet sites that offer instant access to foreign book prices, and to a 1998 Supreme Court ruling that federal copyright law does not protect American manufacturers from having the products they arranged to sell overseas at a discount shipped back for sale in the United States.
Before the Supreme Court decision, Americans could not take advantage of the discounts abroad without violating the copyright law.
Now, however, "gray market" sales are taking off on campuses.
At one prestigious university, a sophomore imported 30 biology books from England this fall and sold them outside his classroom for less than the campus-bookstore price, netting a $1,200 profit. Next semester, if all goes well, he plans to expand the operation.
"The only difference is that they say `international edition' in little print on the cover," said the student, who added that he was not certain whether his project raised any legal issues, and therefore asked that neither he nor his college be identified.
At other colleges, Asian students have banded together to take advantage of textbook prices in Taiwan, Singapore and Malaysia, which are even lower than those in Europe.
Many students, individually, have begun to compare the textbook prices posted on American sites like Amazon.com, with the lower prices for the same books on foreign sites like Amazon.co.uk.
The differences are often significant: "Lehninger Principles of Biochemistry, Third Edition," for example, lists for $146.15 on the American Amazon site, but can be had for $63.48, plus $8.05 shipping, from the British one. And "Linear System Theory and Design, Third Edition" is $110 in the United States, but $41.76, or $49.81 with shipping, in Britain.
Many college bookstores, meanwhile, have taken matters into their own hands, arranging their own overseas purchases.
the authors make the same amount of money anyway, whether the book's sold for $180 in Canada, or a quarter of the price in Hong Kong. i'm sure it's the publishers fixing the prices. but when you look at the books' inside covers you see specifically that it's illegal to sell/ship the books overseas.
I've been trying to find a site that would sell texts and ship them over here but havent found any. (Does anyone have links?)
At Concordia University, pretty much 85% of the students get photocopied textbooks. You can pretty much spend less than $25 and get the entire book with bounding costs included.
You could do it by hand which would take 2 hours on average, or buy a pre-photocopied version at the shop right across the bookstore.
usually the books bought overseas cost about the same, but soft covered. i certainly dont mind it being that. it sure beats the photocopied version in my opinion.
i had kopete running overnight and never logged off... didnt have a problem. once i restarted the client, i couldnt get on. tried amsn... no good. tried gaim... no good.
Slashdot Mirror
and it's one type you dont have to worry about getting that yeast infection...
" like detecting diseases by having a patient blow on a piece of paper 'printed' with the yeast."
now THAT's a blowjob
RADIO 's not learning from us. We need to learn from him!
me too. on firebird. i have all ads blocked, and i was quite surprised when it happened!
i agree.
well it's just part of the evolution. people would still pay for artists music but differently - ie, song books, tabs, and live gigs. they'd still buy their albums if they think it's still worth it so that they can support their artists. if it's 'bad', people arent going to buy the CDs, simple as that. it puts the artists more pressure into better song writing for the songs in the albums, and better performance live. not just robbing them $200 per lip-syncing concert ticket.
engineers making these devices deserve making money just as well.
when you leave the page a javascript popup asks: :D
microsoft's conducting a survey. would you like to participate? everything's gonna be 'rigged' with the slashdot effect...
Who said the penis..uh pen isn't mightier than the sword? Remember, the inventor of astroglide is a rocket scientist!
that's a nice name for someone as brilliant as you are.
fucking kids
my old university upgrades the OS and office every year, which i think is BS. my new university? it runs openoffice :)
it was until recently that they actually started installing windows on the PCs...
actually win2k pro's the last one i use. it's just stabler. never crashes. there's a lot of bloat though. i disabled "windows file protection" and wiped out outlook express and a bunch of junk.
office 2000's alright. officeXP's too slow and bloated. hell, i think even office97's enough for the job actually. just probably some graphic filters that it might not have.
``The distance between what we have and what the free software has is greater today than it's ever been,'' he said. The new Office product's biggest competitors, he said, were its predecessors, most recently Office XP, released two years ago
that's correct, the distance is greater because it's lagging further and further behind than opensource free software.
specifically, the pop-under-autoinstalls, i'd like calling them underwear
finally we've reached version 3 in the enterprise series. in a few years we should be expecting redhat enterprise 3 for workgroups, 95, 98, 2000, XP, Lornhorne.. Way to go! sooner or later we'll be able to block others from forwarding our emails too in upcoming office releases!
well, dark meat electrical engineers arent necessarily linux users.... many even sold their souls to microsoft!
Microsoft's greatest value to customers is building these features into the core operating system, he contended. "We essentially take cost and complexity out of the system ... as opposed to having to force our customers to cobble them together themselves," he said. "That is part of the open source world, the customer puts things together. We think part of our value proposition has to be we have to take a lot of that effort out. N
Wrong. You take the "cost and complexity" out of 3rd party software, so instead of the money going into other company's accounts, it goes into your own pockets.
As for 'putting things together' in the open source world, doing apt-get isnt harder than popping CDs in and doing installations. We do the putting together because we like to customize rather than being forced stuff down our throats. People order from a menu at the restaurant because they want to choose what they eat.
In addition, Microsoft spends about $6.9 billion a year in R&D to improve its software, an effort that could not be funded under an open-source model, Ballmer said. "Most people who are putting their software under open source are doing so because it hasn't been very successful when it was sold. Why not make it free?"
That's right, $6.9 million dollars spent by your company in R&D that would multiply your security holes exponentially. Now that's money very well spent.
You're talking about software not being successful? The entire Concordia University's EE labs run either unix or linux. Openoffice, (surprise, surprise!) is opensource and everyone's been able to hand in their project reports and papers. Software that hadnt been successful... what kind of bullshit is that. You have a guy like this as an exec at Microsoft... we now know what kind of products you guys spit out.
"if there are problems and people do have security issues, I'm SteveB@microsoft.com. They know where to send e-mail and give somebody a hard time about it."
;)
Well, now we all know where to send our emails
you still get blue screens and random reboots from letting it stand still. it's only more secure when you turn off the power...
Students Find $100 Textbooks Cost $50, Purchased Overseas
By TAMAR LEWIN
Published: October 21, 2003
ichard Sarkis and David Kinsley were juniors at Williams College, surfing the net for a cheap source for their economics textbook, when they discovered a little known economic fact: the very same college textbooks used in the United States sell for half price -- or less -- in England.
Just like prescription drugs, textbooks cost far less overseas than they do in the United States. The publishing industry defends its pricing policies, saying that foreign sales would be impossible if book prices were not pegged to local market conditions.
But many Americans do not see it that way. The National Association of College Stores has written to all the leading publishers asking them to end a practice they see as an unfair to American students.
"We think it's frightening, and it's wrong, that the same American textbooks our stores buy here for $100 can be shipped in from some other country for $50," said Laura Nakoneczny, a spokeswoman for the association. "It represents price-gouging of the American public generally and college students in particular."
But thanks to the Internet, more and more individual students and college bookstores are starting to order textbooks from abroad -- and a few entrepreneurs, including Mr. Sarkis and his friends, have begun what are essentially arbitrage businesses to exploit the price differentials.
"We couldn't understand why what costs $120 here should cost $50-something there," said Mr. Sarkis, who, with Mr. Kinsley and another classmate, has spent three years building a Web-based company, BookCentral.com, selling textbooks from abroad to students in the United States. "It seemed so sleazy of the publishers. We were sure that college students would be shocked and outraged if they knew about the foreign prices. But it's been this big secret."
That is changing, though. To the despair of the textbook publishers who are still trying to block such sales, the reimporting of American texts from overseas has become far easier in recent years, thanks both to Internet sites that offer instant access to foreign book prices, and to a 1998 Supreme Court ruling that federal copyright law does not protect American manufacturers from having the products they arranged to sell overseas at a discount shipped back for sale in the United States.
Before the Supreme Court decision, Americans could not take advantage of the discounts abroad without violating the copyright law.
Now, however, "gray market" sales are taking off on campuses.
At one prestigious university, a sophomore imported 30 biology books from England this fall and sold them outside his classroom for less than the campus-bookstore price, netting a $1,200 profit. Next semester, if all goes well, he plans to expand the operation.
"The only difference is that they say `international edition' in little print on the cover," said the student, who added that he was not certain whether his project raised any legal issues, and therefore asked that neither he nor his college be identified.
At other colleges, Asian students have banded together to take advantage of textbook prices in Taiwan, Singapore and Malaysia, which are even lower than those in Europe.
Many students, individually, have begun to compare the textbook prices posted on American sites like Amazon.com, with the lower prices for the same books on foreign sites like Amazon.co.uk.
The differences are often significant: "Lehninger Principles of Biochemistry, Third Edition," for example, lists for $146.15 on the American Amazon site, but can be had for $63.48, plus $8.05 shipping, from the British one. And "Linear System Theory and Design, Third Edition" is $110 in the United States, but $41.76, or $49.81 with shipping, in Britain.
Many college bookstores, meanwhile, have taken matters into their own hands, arranging their own overseas purchases.
"I buy from Amazon.c
do you have the website's link of where you got your books in HK?
thanks
i'm refering to sites in eastern asia. they're even cheaper than amazon in UK...
the authors make the same amount of money anyway, whether the book's sold for $180 in Canada, or a quarter of the price in Hong Kong. i'm sure it's the publishers fixing the prices. but when you look at the books' inside covers you see specifically that it's illegal to sell/ship the books overseas.
I've been trying to find a site that would sell texts and ship them over here but havent found any. (Does anyone have links?)
At Concordia University, pretty much 85% of the students get photocopied textbooks. You can pretty much spend less than $25 and get the entire book with bounding costs included.
You could do it by hand which would take 2 hours on average, or buy a pre-photocopied version at the shop right across the bookstore.
usually the books bought overseas cost about the same, but soft covered. i certainly dont mind it being that. it sure beats the photocopied version in my opinion.
i had kopete running overnight and never logged off... didnt have a problem. once i restarted the client, i couldnt get on. tried amsn... no good. tried gaim... no good.
check out this mandrake user guide my friend wrote
http://mandrakeuser.cjb.net/
i'm using debian... is there anything you would suggest that would make me want to switch to gentoo, other than an optimized/lean system?