If you feel the need to preface a joke with "obligatory", or "someone needed to say it", then please just assume someone's already said it. It's not going to be funny.
Well, I'm afraid. I work less than a mile from the Novi Sheraton. To make matters worse, there's a Best Buy right next door to the hotel. I'm not going to be able to go to lunch without seeing an "I 3 Linux" sticker, am I?
Well hey, you feel free to live life on some hippy commune where you barter for everything, but I've got bills to pay, and if my company started charging ludicrously small amounts for consulting, I wouldn't be able to pay them. Your "free everything" idea is nice, but totally unrealistic.
"Therefore, any old model based on physical manifestations (books, CDs, DVDs, etc.) is dead."
I see this in every discussion like this, but I've never seen anyone present a viable model for companies to use. Is there a model that would allow us to share/copy/alter whatever we want and still make the companies money?
As a rule, any of his horror movies (barring the Shining and possibly Misery) suck, while his more dramatic stories are usually pretty solid. The Green Mile, Shawshank, and Stand by Me are all great movies. Even Hearts in Atlantis wasn't that bad.
In a similar way, my company could easily continue to maintain our old, crappy vehicles, but we don't. They don't look good anymore, don't have all the newest options, and present a bad image to our clients. Same thing with offic suites; frequently it's a cosmetic choice as much as a functional one.
"Oh my god, my company has to buy new fleet vehicles every couple years because the old ones just aren't as good anymore! GM's just one big organized crime syndicate!"
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If you feel the need to preface a joke with "obligatory", or "someone needed to say it", then please just assume someone's already said it. It's not going to be funny.
Well, I'm afraid. I work less than a mile from the Novi Sheraton. To make matters worse, there's a Best Buy right next door to the hotel. I'm not going to be able to go to lunch without seeing an "I 3 Linux" sticker, am I?
As if this city didn't smell bad enough already!
But I think unicorns are really kickass!
It was hard to write, it should be hard to read.
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I mean jesus, who would have thought slashdot did april fools jokes! You sir, have opened my eyes!
If it was a /. story, they'd do the study again and reach the exact same results.
Kids don't grow up to become prostitute-murdering psychopaths because they played a videogame that "taught them it was cool."
But my mom said I could be whatever I wanted when I grew up!
They're just showing off how many servers they can crush.
Well hey, you feel free to live life on some hippy commune where you barter for everything, but I've got bills to pay, and if my company started charging ludicrously small amounts for consulting, I wouldn't be able to pay them. Your "free everything" idea is nice, but totally unrealistic.
"Therefore, any old model based on physical manifestations (books, CDs, DVDs, etc.) is dead."
I see this in every discussion like this, but I've never seen anyone present a viable model for companies to use. Is there a model that would allow us to share/copy/alter whatever we want and still make the companies money?
People I've spoken to that went to the screeners said that it's only the first book. Hopefully this does well enough to justify sequels.
This is going to be a very very replied-to story, and at the end of the "discussion", no one's mind will be changed.
I picture an enormous d20 crashing to the Martian surface and someone at NASA ominously saying "You've just failed your saving throw versus PROGRESS."
As a rule, any of his horror movies (barring the Shining and possibly Misery) suck, while his more dramatic stories are usually pretty solid. The Green Mile, Shawshank, and Stand by Me are all great movies. Even Hearts in Atlantis wasn't that bad.
In a similar way, my company could easily continue to maintain our old, crappy vehicles, but we don't. They don't look good anymore, don't have all the newest options, and present a bad image to our clients. Same thing with offic suites; frequently it's a cosmetic choice as much as a functional one.
Jesus Christ, Captain Drama. Extortion?
"Oh my god, my company has to buy new fleet vehicles every couple years because the old ones just aren't as good anymore! GM's just one big organized crime syndicate!"
Don't forget they can sue all of us for using them, as well.
It's probably because one of the major goals in the game is to "woohoo". You can also make your Sim gay; I don't think they'd like that.
How about you stop calling them "normals"?
Do 99% of AOL users even know what usenet is?
Jesus, this is pathetic. You're complaining that he's only donating enough to vaccinate every kid in 2-3 countries? What the fuck is wrong with you?
What are you talking about? Gates has always been a huge charity donor.
g -gates-charity-total_x.htm
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2003-11-21-bi