Yeah, perhaps they like being able to use vending machines. Or to be able to buy from places which don't have card machines. Or maybe they don't like spending 5 minutes to pay for something. Or perhaps they buy things that cost less than £3 (the minimum purchase in some places). Maybe they don't like all their purchases being tracked. Maybe they don't want to give people unlimited access to their bank account everytime they buy something.
That's just bullets though. Imagine a big missile blows up inside it. The thing would disintegrate. Helium is an incredibly explosive and flammable gas. It would make Hiroshima look like a small bonfire.
You're joking. These days the imdb comments section is full of paid reviews. For example when you look up a computer game, there's a cut-and-paste glowing review. Every single game, a review that's exactly the same.
Not to mention money-spinning but low-quality films given artificially high ratings to sell DVDs (i.e. the new Star Wars films).
Why would there be constant adverts? There aren't now.
I don't have a video card with TV output, at least I think I don't, I'm not a sad geek so I don't know about things like that. And I still don't like the idea of dragging a big cable half way round the house, or setting up a Linux box to fuck about with mythtv.
Face it, computers are fucking useless, I wouldn't let one near a TV in a million years. I'd blame Bill Gates but I use Linux and it's still god-awful.
Imagine TV freezing up because someone's at the computer downloading something. Multi-purpose devices like computers are rarely good at dedicated tasks. The term 'jack of all trades master of none' come to mind.
Maybe in fifty years when computers and the Internet have matured to a point where they actually work properly and easily, they might be considered.
Why do I get the feeling that these different versions are exactly the same, but with different things crippled?
I bet the most expensive version is just the normal version. And then with each price cut, they cut out features or cripple them.
It's like buying a car for 10k, whilst the 15k one has the speed-limiter removed so you can go above 50mph. You're not actually getting anything more, you were just getting less before.
Fuck Microsoft, I'm betting that even a free distro of Linux doesn't have features deliberately crippled.
Having TV programmes on the Internet won't make broadband any cheaper or more widely available. That's assuming that broadband is fast enough to stream quality TV. I don't really know much about that sort of thing, but I don't think 512kb/s is enough for HDTV, or even normal TV.
Anyway, who wants to watch TV on the computer? I prefer to watch it on the TV in the living room, not in a cramped study upstairs somewhere.
Imagine the scene: World Cup final, England vs Brazil, penalty shootout. Beckham steps up, to take the penalty which will bring home the trophy for the first time in 40 years. Then the Internet quota runs out. Or the connection breaks. Or increased demand means crawling speeds for everyone. Or the computer crashes.
Computers are fickle, expensive and unreliable, the Internet even more so. TV is reliable, on-demand and doesn't rely on fancy connections, it just works. Most people don't want to fuck about with a computer just to watch TV, it's bad enough using them for e-mail and word processing.
I suppose next you'll be telling people to install MythTV...
I'm going to assume you made those figures up unless you have a reference.
I must admit that the 0.7% is an approximation based on evidence, but the 0.24% is widely-known official statistic. That means 1 in 400 desktops have Linux on. I think that's pretty accurate, especially considering the billions of people in Indo-China using pirated Windows.
Yeah right. So if I get a canister of methane, open it up, and light a match, it won't burn because I haven't put any oxygen in it? Tell that to the people who use it as a heat source, they don't take oxygen canisters with them it just burns on its own.
If I remember chemistry lessons correctly: the chemical reaction for methane is this:
Well, Opera usually seems to be a few years ahead of Firefox when it comes to functionality, speed and ease of use, so we should see integrated bittorrent support for Firefox somewhere around 2009.
Well, based on the last figures, Linux has 0.24% of the desktop, and Mac has about 0.5%, so that's 0.74%, I was being generous by rounding to 1%.
The Mac has been forced into releasing lower-priced computers just to compete, now they're out of the OS game and have run away to MP3 players to try and hide from Microsoft.
Meanwhile Linux's stock price just goes down and down.
The rights are granted by God or by birth. The Constitution gives our government very restricted enumerated powers. Government grants us no rights
Your 'rights' are given to you by a piece of paper, which can be changed by the government and interpreted or ignored by the courts. You have no more free speech in America than anywhere else.
Arguing over semantics counts for shit in reality.
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You're joking? All women cheat, even the average ones. In which case you're better off with the hot ones. They're less bitter in any case.
Yeah, perhaps they like being able to use vending machines. Or to be able to buy from places which don't have card machines. Or maybe they don't like spending 5 minutes to pay for something. Or perhaps they buy things that cost less than £3 (the minimum purchase in some places). Maybe they don't like all their purchases being tracked. Maybe they don't want to give people unlimited access to their bank account everytime they buy something.
I watched TV on the computer once. It was jerky and blocky. Not a pleasant experience.
That's just bullets though. Imagine a big missile blows up inside it. The thing would disintegrate. Helium is an incredibly explosive and flammable gas. It would make Hiroshima look like a small bonfire.
You're joking. These days the imdb comments section is full of paid reviews. For example when you look up a computer game, there's a cut-and-paste glowing review. Every single game, a review that's exactly the same.
Not to mention money-spinning but low-quality films given artificially high ratings to sell DVDs (i.e. the new Star Wars films).
I paid about £20 for my monitor, so yes, it is. And that 200 is only going to get you a small LCD.
Three LCDs? This isn't the dot com era. Do you know how much those LCDs cost? Here's a hint: A LOT.
Surely it can't be that high. 10%? Even in the wasteland that is Britain, we don't have unemployment that high.
Why would there be constant adverts? There aren't now.
I don't have a video card with TV output, at least I think I don't, I'm not a sad geek so I don't know about things like that. And I still don't like the idea of dragging a big cable half way round the house, or setting up a Linux box to fuck about with mythtv.
Face it, computers are fucking useless, I wouldn't let one near a TV in a million years. I'd blame Bill Gates but I use Linux and it's still god-awful.
Imagine TV freezing up because someone's at the computer downloading something. Multi-purpose devices like computers are rarely good at dedicated tasks. The term 'jack of all trades master of none' come to mind.
Maybe in fifty years when computers and the Internet have matured to a point where they actually work properly and easily, they might be considered.
$9.37 is pretty good. Most students will end up stacking shelves or working behind bars for $5 an hour. That's almost double pay.
Yeah, apparently that Cringley thing was just him sitting there talking. It could have been an mp3. I'm glad I didn't download it on my 56k!
Why do I get the feeling that these different versions are exactly the same, but with different things crippled?
I bet the most expensive version is just the normal version. And then with each price cut, they cut out features or cripple them.
It's like buying a car for 10k, whilst the 15k one has the speed-limiter removed so you can go above 50mph. You're not actually getting anything more, you were just getting less before.
Fuck Microsoft, I'm betting that even a free distro of Linux doesn't have features deliberately crippled.
Having TV programmes on the Internet won't make broadband any cheaper or more widely available. That's assuming that broadband is fast enough to stream quality TV. I don't really know much about that sort of thing, but I don't think 512kb/s is enough for HDTV, or even normal TV.
Anyway, who wants to watch TV on the computer? I prefer to watch it on the TV in the living room, not in a cramped study upstairs somewhere.
Imagine the scene: World Cup final, England vs Brazil, penalty shootout. Beckham steps up, to take the penalty which will bring home the trophy for the first time in 40 years. Then the Internet quota runs out. Or the connection breaks. Or increased demand means crawling speeds for everyone. Or the computer crashes.
Computers are fickle, expensive and unreliable, the Internet even more so. TV is reliable, on-demand and doesn't rely on fancy connections, it just works. Most people don't want to fuck about with a computer just to watch TV, it's bad enough using them for e-mail and word processing.
I suppose next you'll be telling people to install MythTV...
This is too many. Windows used to be pretty simple, this is going over the top. Another massive lack of judgement from the Microsoft management.
But it's still miles ahead of Linux which has about 50,000 different variations.
I'm going to assume you made those figures up unless you have a reference.
I must admit that the 0.7% is an approximation based on evidence, but the 0.24% is widely-known official statistic. That means 1 in 400 desktops have Linux on. I think that's pretty accurate, especially considering the billions of people in Indo-China using pirated Windows.
Linux doesn't have a stock price.
Things are that bad.
You mean, it starts of alright, then just gets worse and worse and worse until you're begging for it to end?
No that's too complicated, I think we'll stick with my equation. It also doesn't require oxygen which makes it much more useful.
Good luck using your equation in space or somewhere...
Yeah right. So if I get a canister of methane, open it up, and light a match, it won't burn because I haven't put any oxygen in it? Tell that to the people who use it as a heat source, they don't take oxygen canisters with them it just burns on its own.
If I remember chemistry lessons correctly: the chemical reaction for methane is this:
CH4 -> C + 2H2
No oxygen involved.
Obviously they're short of land in Russia...
Pretty harsh I'd say.
I kid, I kid. I mean one of us must have gotten laid right?
Depends if you count RMS arse-raping CmdrTaco while he sucks off ESR.
Well, Opera usually seems to be a few years ahead of Firefox when it comes to functionality, speed and ease of use, so we should see integrated bittorrent support for Firefox somewhere around 2009.
Well, based on the last figures, Linux has 0.24% of the desktop, and Mac has about 0.5%, so that's 0.74%, I was being generous by rounding to 1%.
The Mac has been forced into releasing lower-priced computers just to compete, now they're out of the OS game and have run away to MP3 players to try and hide from Microsoft.
Meanwhile Linux's stock price just goes down and down.
The rights are granted by God or by birth. The Constitution gives our government very restricted enumerated powers. Government grants us no rights
Your 'rights' are given to you by a piece of paper, which can be changed by the government and interpreted or ignored by the courts. You have no more free speech in America than anywhere else.
Arguing over semantics counts for shit in reality.
What are you talking about? Loads of people use microsoft's search engine and MSN messenger.
Oh wait a sec, this just in... they're going to open up the APIs for Windows users only.
As opposed to who? The Linux/Mac users who probably total 1% of the market?