Apple has a monopoly? Are there no other "smart" phones? Are there no other tablets? You buy apple you use the method they have to get your "apps". It's kind of like freedom of the press if you have a press you have the freedom, but that doesn't mean that you have a right to a press.
Bands make an average of $1.00 per cd sold, Radiohead's experiment gave the band $2.26 per "cd" downloaded. I'll take failure like that if it is offered.
No human indever is flawless, no manmade thing is perfect. As far as closed vs. open source the bigest difference is being able to work on something till you are satisified vs. working on it till someone wants to sell it. That said if the OSS developer is working for someone they may be under the same sort of pressure to release now, fix later.
Clinton asked for defered status and then thought better of that, and took his chances. He pulled a 311 in the draft lotto, that guaranteed he would not serve, but he had removed himself from the ROTC program because he said he didn't believe in it and took his chances.
"You cannot apply one set of rules to everyone and a different set of rules to yourself"
Actually if it is your damn show you can apply any set of rules any way you want. Like you have freedom of the press if you own a press. Also what the hell is up with comparing who gets to particpate in a "Reality" TV show with trial by jury and piloting airliners, if the show is that important to you seek help, soon.
Well does "Mom" reinstall windows? Is she going to upgrade to XP from ME or whatever? Are you saying that a reasonably intelegent human can look at windows and start using it but KDE or GNOME will be impossible without extensive education? I contend that if "Mom" has worked in Windows she won't have that much trouble working in XWindows but installing or reinstalling is a different animal all together.
I tried it a few years ago, and got X working in 320 by 240. Aparently it wouldn't go any higher with my hardware, or my drivers, or my configuration
Of course nothing has changed in the last few years and never will, no new drivers no new installation routines, so your comment is very acurate and timely.
Not to put to fine a point on this, but you state NAPSTER HAS NOT BOOSTED MUSIC SALES! I have been involved in retail sales for years, every company I've worked for has analysis tools for days to determine what causes people to buy and I have never heard it put better than the fellow who said of the restraunt who's sales slumped "They must be eating somewhere else." That said the fact the RIAA doesn't like all this downloading doesn't prove that easy access to downloaded music hasn't helped CD sales, to be fair it doesn't prove the oposite either. Nor is the fact the industry is struggling proof one way or the other. AFAIK it is still not possible to download a CD from the internet, and while MP3s have remarkable quality for such a small file, it is not the same, not even really close fidelity wise. This may seem like bunk to you but many people want to know that the CD they are about to spend 20+$ on has more than 2min 30sec of music they will want to hear twice. Last but not least I think the blank media sales may have something to do with every major record chain (ie Virgin, Tower, Wherehouse) changing policy to say if it's opened no return, even more than everyone making thier own CDs from all that music they downloaded for free.
Every freakin idiot says "Linux is too hard, nongeeks can't use it." If a computer comes with Windows then probably the nongeek is going to use Windows. If a computer comes with Linux that same nongeek is going to use that. If that nongeek needs different software or to do something they never did before they will call a geek friend(I know this I am that geek friend). If there is something easy about Windows please let me know I've supported it for 5+ years and between drivers that don't drive, BSODs, etc. I find it a most difficult and tempermental OS, and that goes for the 9x as well as the New Technology(NT). For the freakin idiots, please find a new line of FUD, thanks.
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I have read what you wrote and what the fact that you got modded troll says is that you are trolling.
Apple has a monopoly? Are there no other "smart" phones? Are there no other tablets? You buy apple you use the method they have to get your "apps". It's kind of like freedom of the press if you have a press you have the freedom, but that doesn't mean that you have a right to a press.
23.75.345.200 I shall say no more.
vague pictures of people with beverages = conclusive proof of alcohol consumption? It's a jacked-up world you live in.
Bands make an average of $1.00 per cd sold, Radiohead's experiment gave the band $2.26 per "cd" downloaded. I'll take failure like that if it is offered.
something should kill it.
Are you trying to say that the award in the lawsuit was partially outrageous?
you can and should ignore it.
No human indever is flawless, no manmade thing is perfect. As far as closed vs. open source the bigest difference is being able to work on something till you are satisified vs. working on it till someone wants to sell it. That said if the OSS developer is working for someone they may be under the same sort of pressure to release now, fix later.
He was held without bail and without charges before all the cool muslim kids started doing it.
Oddly enough, the worst troll ever doesn't get better by being repeated.
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can be used to pirate pictures from internet sites.
Clinton asked for defered status and then thought better of that, and took his chances. He pulled a 311 in the draft lotto, that guaranteed he would not serve, but he had removed himself from the ROTC program because he said he didn't believe in it and took his chances.
I might believe it if you said that a developer had gotten a date. Four? No way did four developers talk to chicks, even if it was the same chick.
"You cannot apply one set of rules to everyone and a different set of rules to yourself"
Actually if it is your damn show you can apply any set of rules any way you want. Like you have freedom of the press if you own a press. Also what the hell is up with comparing who gets to particpate in a "Reality" TV show with trial by jury and piloting airliners, if the show is that important to you seek help, soon.
Well does "Mom" reinstall windows? Is she going to upgrade to XP from ME or whatever? Are you saying that a reasonably intelegent human can look at windows and start using it but KDE or GNOME will be impossible without extensive education? I contend that if "Mom" has worked in Windows she won't have that much trouble working in XWindows but installing or reinstalling is a different animal all together.
You are a pussy.
It is a different comparison, but Verisign is hardly a 16 year old and they have not been without problems, so they should have known better.
Of course nothing has changed in the last few years and never will, no new drivers no new installation routines, so your comment is very acurate and timely.
300 lbs and thumping BASS, it's a wonder you have any downstairs neighbors. Hell it's a wonder you have any downstairs. It sounds too cool.
Too bad you can't even put a name on your opinion. The AC calling the AC a coward?
But does patch and patch and patch, count as "Out of the Box" ?
Not to put to fine a point on this, but you state NAPSTER HAS NOT BOOSTED MUSIC SALES! I have been involved in retail sales for years, every company I've worked for has analysis tools for days to determine what causes people to buy and I have never heard it put better than the fellow who said of the restraunt who's sales slumped "They must be eating somewhere else." That said the fact the RIAA doesn't like all this downloading doesn't prove that easy access to downloaded music hasn't helped CD sales, to be fair it doesn't prove the oposite either. Nor is the fact the industry is struggling proof one way or the other. AFAIK it is still not possible to download a CD from the internet, and while MP3s have remarkable quality for such a small file, it is not the same, not even really close fidelity wise. This may seem like bunk to you but many people want to know that the CD they are about to spend 20+$ on has more than 2min 30sec of music they will want to hear twice. Last but not least I think the blank media sales may have something to do with every major record chain (ie Virgin, Tower, Wherehouse) changing policy to say if it's opened no return, even more than everyone making thier own CDs from all that music they downloaded for free.
The difference between serious players, and non serious players is weather they started drink during the game or waited until after.
Just wondered which one's which?
Every freakin idiot says "Linux is too hard, nongeeks can't use it." If a computer comes with Windows then probably the nongeek is going to use Windows. If a computer comes with Linux that same nongeek is going to use that. If that nongeek needs different software or to do something they never did before they will call a geek friend(I know this I am that geek friend). If there is something easy about Windows please let me know I've supported it for 5+ years and between drivers that don't drive, BSODs, etc. I find it a most difficult and tempermental OS, and that goes for the 9x as well as the New Technology(NT). For the freakin idiots, please find a new line of FUD, thanks.