Even if thats true ( which i doubt ), so what? Why do you have to *gain* each quarter to stay in a market? What if you are making a ton of money off the sales you are doing now and just keep it at that level? I would say you are still making the same amount of money.
To make a difference you want to boycott bands that are connected with the 'industry'. Meanwhile, you want to go out and buy lots of stuff from indie bands that are not. ( which just so happens is the better music these days, but that is not the point i was trying to make )
While it might be good for testing and such, what is the true value of running it in a VM when you are using your hardware network interfaces anyway ? To me that sort of defeats the purpose..
No, i do remmber. and I dont agree they were pioneers. They were a bunch of wealthy snot nosed kids raised on theft from others. Bills parents were lawers.. a rotten industry if there ever was one.
They stole products ( DOS ) and concepts ( GEM anyone? ), and screwed people over during their 'rise to total domination'. From day one they were against software freedom. "dont copy our paper tapes of BASIC, its wrong" . They screwed IBM with NT after they drained IBM of the OS/2 code during their 'partnership'. The list goes on and on.
They have NEVER been a good company. Ever.
Though, i do agree that in the old days we *thought* they were the good guy fighting the good cause against the 'man'.. They snowed us on that one.
Will they be forcing you to trade in your old PC before you can get a new one? That way they can insure you have the latest and greatest embedded DRM and have no way to bypass it.
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Even if thats true ( which i doubt ), so what? Why do you have to *gain* each quarter to stay in a market? What if you are making a ton of money off the sales you are doing now and just keep it at that level? I would say you are still making the same amount of money.
To make a difference you want to boycott bands that are connected with the 'industry'. Meanwhile, you want to go out and buy lots of stuff from indie bands that are not. ( which just so happens is the better music these days, but that is not the point i was trying to make )
Just buying NO music wont do the trick.
This just goes to show you can 'prove' anything with 'results'. No matter how tainted they are or how much of an agenda you have.
My theorem, with the same numbers, is that people with lower IQ on average eat more and exercise less. Thus the results prove my theory.
Its all a scam these days, including so called 'science'.
Sure we do, its part of human nature to poke fun at others misery. It doesnt have to be 'personal'.
People dont 'go through the EULA', they just click on a button to make the stupid thing go away.
less then 1% actualy read any of that stuff.
It might even backfire ' see, this free stuff isnt really free, it had some legal jargon i had to click ok for '
That was the main piece missing in monowall.. ( that and a nice installer for PC hardware users ).
While it might be good for testing and such, what is the true value of running it in a VM when you are using your hardware network interfaces anyway ? To me that sort of defeats the purpose ..
You know what, i really dont care if people agree with me or not.
I *never* said linux was the choice. I only say that microsoft is NOT it. Dont put words in my mouth ( errr, fingers i guess, to be accurate )
Go ahead and belive that crap you are dishing out. "Microsoft is so wonderful".. ya whatever, idiot.
They suck and are immoral, illegal and should be terminated completely. Bill should have been aborted before birth for the same reason.
And if you dont belive that attorneys are scum of the earth feeding off others, then you are either blind or stupid.
Lack of knowledge? I was f-ing there. Were you? If you were, you must have been stoned and had no concept of what was really happening around you.
Rant? Sure.. i have no problem what part of your statement.
No, i do remmber. and I dont agree they were pioneers. They were a bunch of wealthy snot nosed kids raised on theft from others. Bills parents were lawers .. a rotten industry if there ever was one.
They stole products ( DOS ) and concepts ( GEM anyone? ), and screwed people over during their 'rise to total domination'. From day one they were against software freedom. "dont copy our paper tapes of BASIC, its wrong" . They screwed IBM with NT after they drained IBM of the OS/2 code during their 'partnership'. The list goes on and on.
They have NEVER been a good company. Ever.
Though, i do agree that in the old days we *thought* they were the good guy fighting the good cause against the 'man'.. They snowed us on that one.
And you will still get ground into the ground until you submit.
He was wealthy and able to fight, it was worth it to them just to drop it. The PR of actually losing the case would be much worse.
Its not 5 cents here.
Its more like 10 bucks per tire. Sure not a *lot*, its just the principle of it. And over a life time, it does add up.
I honestly thing vista is the beginning of the end for Microsoft.
They are pissing off their corporate customers, the governmnent. end users, 3rd party vendors.. Pretty much everyone...
Much as the *AA's are starting to cross the line, and will pay the price if they dont adapt, quickly.
The world has changed, and people are more aware and just wont put up with it..
Its a company, they can choose not to air anything they want..
Its only when the government gets involved that there are any issues with it.
Will they be forcing you to trade in your old PC before you can get a new one? That way they can insure you have the latest and greatest embedded DRM and have no way to bypass it.
Let them try to take my AtariST away !
In a way we already do.
You are forced to recyle them, and pay a fee for the 'privilege'. Even if you want to use the old tire as a flower pot you still pay the fee.
Yet another tax scam is all this is.
Does that mean we will start seeing old PC's dumped on the side of the road ?
You can expect that the day after ReactOS becomes viable, it will dissapear in a cloud of law suits.
For now, its not a threat.
Not *my* computer.
No f-ing way. And it has nothing to do with staying legal, i dont this garbage anywhere near my house.
If they make it hard enough to do your job, or piss off enough home users.. It can only be a good thing.
Or, more likely in this case:
Company A is a flyspec on the map and company B just buys them and fires everyone. Problem solved.
When the chips are down, ( no pun intended ) and your business model is going up in a fireball.. sue someone!
Thats what it sounds like to me, except you can store it on a removable device instead of a server.
Still, would be nice to have, if they can solve the massive security risks.
Except we did it using analog technology.
But still, it wasnt practical at the time. I fully admit that.