75% of windows computers crash at least once a week.
If once a week doesn't sound like a lot to you, imagine how annoyed you'd be if your ISP was down once a week, because that's what we're talking about.... and here's some for-pay updates to fix that problem, you drooling idiot customer. WINDOWS IS YOUR GOD. WORSHIP IT.
Yes, and the answer to your question is, of course, that those are two different types of machines, as you have pointed out well. The type your ISP has is a server and it is expected to be up at anytime. While, your desktop may crash once a week and you will reboot once a week and go on downloading your movie.
And, of course, the stuff your ISP runs does not compare to anything the an air traffic control should run, for example.
Releasing OSX for x86 would most certainly kill Apple's hardware business. However, if they could convince Dell to sell Dell branded Apple machines, they'd gain a ton of marketshare.
I'm not sure about branding and other "religious" stuff, but from the business point of view, porting OSX to x86 burns down to whether Apple's loss in hardware will be *significantly* less than their profits from selling OSX on x86.
My personal IMHO is that Apple will have more net profit. I might be wrong.
"If there wasn't piracy there would be more software companies in Russia and Eastern Europe," he said.
It is not because of piracy that the number of russian companies is so scarce. Have you seen alot of russian pirated software lately? IL-2 Sturmovik, maybe. There is not much russian software to pirate. They might copy various MS's stuff, windowses (nobody in the sane mind would get windows for $100, they dont give a fsck about BSA), but there's no russian software to pirate.
I'd like to see one of the big Linux vendors set up a "strike force" to do panic roll-outs like this
No need to rush and set up any strike forces. Just do
"format C:" for every machine. Now *after* the audition you will have plenty of time to install whatever linux you want.
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...However, consider the impact on the consumer if these add-ons were removed from the OS? Now, on top of the OS license cost... ...?!??
CD burner ($50) -- use freeware instead. ($0)
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75% of windows computers crash at least once a week.
... and here's some for-pay updates to fix that problem, you drooling idiot customer. WINDOWS IS YOUR GOD. WORSHIP IT.
If once a week doesn't sound like a lot to you, imagine how annoyed you'd be if your ISP was down once a week, because that's what we're talking about.
Yes, and the answer to your question is, of course, that those are two different types of machines, as you have pointed out well. The type your ISP has is a server and it is expected to be up at anytime. While, your desktop may crash once a week and you will reboot once a week and go on downloading your movie.
And, of course, the stuff your ISP runs does not compare to anything the an air traffic control should run, for example.
Releasing OSX for x86 would most certainly kill Apple's hardware business. However, if they could convince Dell to sell Dell branded Apple machines, they'd gain a ton of marketshare.
I'm not sure about branding and other "religious" stuff, but from the business point of view, porting OSX to x86 burns down to whether Apple's loss in hardware will be *significantly* less than their profits from selling OSX on x86.
My personal IMHO is that Apple will have more net profit. I might be wrong.
...Intel will happily fire back when the Clawhammer is released...
The feature is called Yamhill
just try playing it on a 450MHz machine and you will find it is impossibly fast.
Just try disabling L2 cache. You won't believe it's a 450Mhz box.
The actual href is here
Let me reply to this :)
Here are some examples of (IMHO)successful russian software companies:
http://www.kaspersky.com/ "Kaspersky labs". Antivirus software.
http://www.1c.ru/ "1C". Office, Educational, games, and localized distributions.
http://maddox.1c.ru/ "Maddox Games", now part of "1C". Il-2 Sturmovik.
http://www.buka.ru/
the list goes on. Just see here at Google
"If there wasn't piracy there would be more software companies in Russia and Eastern Europe," he said.
It is not because of piracy that the number of russian companies is so scarce. Have you seen alot of russian pirated software lately? IL-2 Sturmovik, maybe. There is not much russian software to pirate. They might copy various MS's stuff, windowses (nobody in the sane mind would get windows for $100, they dont give a fsck about BSA), but there's no russian software to pirate.
I'd like to see one of the big Linux vendors set up a "strike force" to do panic roll-outs like this
No need to rush and set up any strike forces. Just do "format C:" for every machine. Now *after* the audition you will have plenty of time to install whatever linux you want.
What can we realistically do in order to force a bit more honesty in software providers?
...
Imagine a label on WinXP machine "Honesty enforced and compatible" or "Honesty Inside"
Since when did we start to force honesty? Sounds like "let's force some free speech!"
Just my 10 kopeks.
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Erm... Maybe I'm mistaken, but isn't Pong already painful enough?
That would be Pang.
pang (png) n. 1. A sudden sharp spasm of pain. 2. A sudden, sharp feeling of emotional distress.
Not sure about Pizza on P4, but try an egg on AthlonXP :-)
Earliest potential occurrence...
Computer/Chip/Operating System Maker Blackmails Country or World 2000
Does that remind you of something?
...some chemical concoctation...
Concoc... What!?
Ah! Concoction.
...However, consider the impact on the consumer if these add-ons were removed from the OS? Now, on top of the OS license cost...
...?!??
:)
:-)
CD burner ($50) -- use freeware instead. ($0)
a browser($30) -- WTF?! Here It's free. ($0)
an archiver($30 for Winzip) -- Here. It's free as well. ($0)
an FTP client($40 CuteFTP c4.2) -- if FREE ($0) IE is not enough, go here and get something else. ($0)
etc etc etc. -- You can get this for free as well
The total is $0. Consider the imact on the consumer