If they grossed US$250B and profited US$5B, then that's a 2% profit margin (correct?). Do you call that a huge profit margin. Most grocery chains run on a 2-5% margin. Nothing like software...
Yeah, the "Million Linux Computers" project to the north of you, in Thailand, pretty much failed to create the large Linux market that it was designed to, through 95% piracy.
I don't live in the US, but Thailand has many parties, and it doesn't appear to be less corrupt than the US system. That said, I would still vote for whomever I felt was appropriate for the job.
I was living in the US when Perot ran for office the first time, and I heard a lot of support for him. I felt that if everyone who didn't want to "waste their vote" had voted for him, he might've won. It would've been a crazy few years there, but that's a different matter.
No offense, but to do so would be silly, because the word quantum had a meaning before physics. There was a new kind of physics that emphasized the discreet nature of things that appeared to be continuous, so they used a word, quantum, that expressed that meaning when they named this new thing.
I'm not arguing with you, but the situation isn't much different in thailand, with word separation algorithms and display problems, and definitely less than ten percent of the population having computers.
New Thai users need support from friends and books. While these are available for Linux, the impression is that they aren't, and that the person they know who will help them learn to use the thing knows about Windows. It's a catch-22 situation.
Man, this is why I so support thin clients. Just upgrade the server and you're fine again for a couple of years. Never upgrade the clients if you don't care to.
There are some who believe that. I suspect that the situation is similar to Thailand's: the gov't would like to see the population use something other than US Windows, for numerous reasons, but the man on the street sees no reason to change from what he's used to, so things just go on as they have.
While I agree with you, developing countries have extremely short sight. Thailand is famous for it's 98% piracy rate. The Thai OSS community has been working toward a national OS based on Linux for some time now, and has sold hundreds of thousands of pre-installed Linux computers.
The vast majority of them just end up with a pirated version of Windows, even though XP/Office combos are available legally for virtually nothing. The fact that a legal copy is available for little more than the pirated version doesn't matter when the owner is shopping entirely on price.
Computer literacy is low enough that few dare install anything different than Windows, because even a change in the menu sturcture will throw a lot of folks off.
Well, it's grammatically wrong. You should use use "I didn't understand it, either" or "Me, either." When agreeing with a negative, use either, not too.
So please explain to me why you corrected your parent post's use of a statement agreeing with a negative ("Me, either") with a construction designed to agree with a postive ("Me, too") You apparently know nothing of which you speak. Educate yourself before you bother giving correction to someone who needs none.
You know that being a representative to the US government used to be a part-time job? Go to serve/vote andthen go home to supervise your farm or whatever. I think that would be a good idea. Part-time work and part-time pay. No career politicians.
This is a major difference in the American style of puctuation vs. the British style. American grammar traditionally puts every punctuation mark inside the quotes, no matter whether it is germaine to the quote or not. British grammar differentiates depending on the context of the mark. Just for the edification of all you grammar nazis out the....
In my opinion, this is like genetics. A new distro is like an isolated species, evolving new genes and a new sub-species, then being rejoined into the main species gene pool. There are many projects (apt-rpm for one) that occurred in specific distros and then found great popular appeal among other distros.
Smoothwall (your example?) spawned several off-shoots, which highlighted problems with original distro. In Ubuntu's case (and UserLinux), these are just specialized Debian distros. This gives the user great flexibility in rejoining the Debian distro if they find some need unmet.
I figure "whatever." If people want to create a new distro by repackaging stuff, then more power to them. I don't know that Ubuntu is doing anything new or unheard of, but they seem (from the article) to have done it well.
Since (as I've said previously) I am neither interested nor involved in the US political scene, and I have repeatedly tried to explain that this type of media was extremely successful for probably the first time in history, I think that you are the one trying to pick a fight here, not me. Let it rest. Show me another US$100M+ documentary, and I'll answer you. Otherwise, consider this conversation ended.
P.S. You should rename yourself, "KillJoy." Don't take life so seriously.
I'm talking specifically about the "opening a bank account and walking out with a gun," section, which was apparently re-enacted and fictionalized to some extent without telling the viewers.
They think that democrats are demons, traitors and the enemy of the United States.
How is that germaine tothe discussion? What does it matter what they think, since I am talking about money? I see a lot of apparent liberals on Slashdot who feel the same way about people who support Bush.
I doubt that any of the "political commentators" that you mentioned are even in the same ballpark as US$119M in about 4 months. That kind of money for political views has to be new.
I take it you think that those shots were faked?
That's quite an assumption. Actually, my comment was primarily about the money made by the film compared to it's budget. The "Don't take things at face value" was just a general warning, considering that I haven't had the opportunity to watch 9/11 here in rural South Korea. I probably wouldn't, though, even if it were shown in a theater within 100km of here, because I don't follow the US political scene.
You need to calm yourself down a little and not jump the gun...
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Maybe they think that Bush is a douchebag, but they're still voting for him anyway... haha. I hate the election season... se my sig.
If they grossed US$250B and profited US$5B, then that's a 2% profit margin (correct?). Do you call that a huge profit margin. Most grocery chains run on a 2-5% margin. Nothing like software...
Yeah, the "Million Linux Computers" project to the north of you, in Thailand, pretty much failed to create the large Linux market that it was designed to, through 95% piracy.
I don't live in the US, but Thailand has many parties, and it doesn't appear to be less corrupt than the US system. That said, I would still vote for whomever I felt was appropriate for the job.
I was living in the US when Perot ran for office the first time, and I heard a lot of support for him. I felt that if everyone who didn't want to "waste their vote" had voted for him, he might've won. It would've been a crazy few years there, but that's a different matter.
Bush is a psychotic cowboy who used his family's power to avoid going to war.
OK, I don't live in the US, but even I am pretty sure that accusation has been discredited as fraud from Kerry supporters. Care to back it up?
doomed our economy.
I'm pretty sure that your economy was doomed no matter who took office...
And here's where we get into the "Free as in BSD" vs. "Free as in GPL" flame fest...
Those who are stupid can learn.
Actually, the stupid can't learn. That's the difference between stupidity and ignorance.
While that may sound nit-picky, part of your argument depends on this confusion, so you might want to rephrase your opinion.
Since when did affirmative action come to exist only in Universities? What about hiring practices?
No offense, but to do so would be silly, because the word quantum had a meaning before physics. There was a new kind of physics that emphasized the discreet nature of things that appeared to be continuous, so they used a word, quantum, that expressed that meaning when they named this new thing.
I'm not arguing with you, but the situation isn't much different in thailand, with word separation algorithms and display problems, and definitely less than ten percent of the population having computers.
New Thai users need support from friends and books. While these are available for Linux, the impression is that they aren't, and that the person they know who will help them learn to use the thing knows about Windows. It's a catch-22 situation.
Man, this is why I so support thin clients. Just upgrade the server and you're fine again for a couple of years. Never upgrade the clients if you don't care to.
There are some who believe that. I suspect that the situation is similar to Thailand's: the gov't would like to see the population use something other than US Windows, for numerous reasons, but the man on the street sees no reason to change from what he's used to, so things just go on as they have.
While I agree with you, developing countries have extremely short sight. Thailand is famous for it's 98% piracy rate. The Thai OSS community has been working toward a national OS based on Linux for some time now, and has sold hundreds of thousands of pre-installed Linux computers.
The vast majority of them just end up with a pirated version of Windows, even though XP/Office combos are available legally for virtually nothing. The fact that a legal copy is available for little more than the pirated version doesn't matter when the owner is shopping entirely on price.
Computer literacy is low enough that few dare install anything different than Windows, because even a change in the menu sturcture will throw a lot of folks off.
"I do, too."
"I don't, either."
"Me, too."
"Me, either."
"So do I."
"Neither do I."
Neither is OK, but the complement of so, not too.
Well, it's grammatically wrong. You should use use "I didn't understand it, either" or "Me, either." When agreeing with a negative, use either, not too.
So please explain to me why you corrected your parent post's use of a statement agreeing with a negative ("Me, either") with a construction designed to agree with a postive ("Me, too") You apparently know nothing of which you speak. Educate yourself before you bother giving correction to someone who needs none.
You know that being a representative to the US government used to be a part-time job? Go to serve/vote andthen go home to supervise your farm or whatever. I think that would be a good idea. Part-time work and part-time pay. No career politicians.
Should read "out there..."
This is a major difference in the American style of puctuation vs. the British style. American grammar traditionally puts every punctuation mark inside the quotes, no matter whether it is germaine to the quote or not. British grammar differentiates depending on the context of the mark. Just for the edification of all you grammar nazis out the....
In my opinion, this is like genetics. A new distro is like an isolated species, evolving new genes and a new sub-species, then being rejoined into the main species gene pool. There are many projects (apt-rpm for one) that occurred in specific distros and then found great popular appeal among other distros.
Smoothwall (your example?) spawned several off-shoots, which highlighted problems with original distro. In Ubuntu's case (and UserLinux), these are just specialized Debian distros. This gives the user great flexibility in rejoining the Debian distro if they find some need unmet.
I figure "whatever." If people want to create a new distro by repackaging stuff, then more power to them. I don't know that Ubuntu is doing anything new or unheard of, but they seem (from the article) to have done it well.
Since (as I've said previously) I am neither interested nor involved in the US political scene, and I have repeatedly tried to explain that this type of media was extremely successful for probably the first time in history, I think that you are the one trying to pick a fight here, not me. Let it rest. Show me another US$100M+ documentary, and I'll answer you. Otherwise, consider this conversation ended.
P.S. You should rename yourself, "KillJoy." Don't take life so seriously.
You'll notice that I said "in four months," because this film is showing (on Yahoo) a release time of 13 weeks.
I'm talking specifically about the "opening a bank account and walking out with a gun," section, which was apparently re-enacted and fictionalized to some extent without telling the viewers.
They think that democrats are demons, traitors and the enemy of the United States.
How is that germaine tothe discussion? What does it matter what they think, since I am talking about money? I see a lot of apparent liberals on Slashdot who feel the same way about people who support Bush.
I doubt that any of the "political commentators" that you mentioned are even in the same ballpark as US$119M in about 4 months. That kind of money for political views has to be new.
I take it you think that those shots were faked?
That's quite an assumption. Actually, my comment was primarily about the money made by the film compared to it's budget. The "Don't take things at face value" was just a general warning, considering that I haven't had the opportunity to watch 9/11 here in rural South Korea. I probably wouldn't, though, even if it were shown in a theater within 100km of here, because I don't follow the US political scene.
You need to calm yourself down a little and not jump the gun...