Not really. It means all the eggs are in one basket. If you've got a problem with cdrecord, say for instance it doesn't work on your setup, none of your burning programs will work. It's good to see a Linux app that has a proper low-level API rather than being just another wrapper.
And they say Linux isn't ready for the desktop! I for one have problems burning DVDs under Linux, it only seems to write at 0.5 speed, even though the drive AND the disks go up to 8 speed. K3b seems to ignore the speed I select, and using the command-line utilities directly gives the same result.
Although it's good that Linux by default comes with free CD/DVD burning utilities, rather than making you hunt the Internet for one which doesn't either contain spyware or mean giving up your credit card number.
Just what slashdot needs, first posts asking loaded questions in order to market Apple products. How much did you bribe the editors to get that first post, Mr Jobs?
That's the 'cheat' bit, the only part in the whole advert that didn't happen by itself.
Also this is the most overrated advert ever. Has absolutely nothing to do with the product, doesn't demonstrate what's good about the cars at all. Also didn't do much to make people notice what it was advertising, most people couldn't tell you who did the advert, only referring to it as 'the advert with all those things that hit other things and made things roll up ramps'. In fact this slashdot page is the only thing that told me it was a honda advert.
If name is anything to go by, HD-DVD won't win. It's five syllables long! The two Ds in a row wasn't a masterstroke either. Blue-ray sounds a lot better, it rolls off the tongue.
One has to wonder what marketing genus wanted to call their product beta anyway
Women don't want to change their things. They don't want to take a man who's completely undesirable to them and make him desirable. You watch too much TV.
Or you could stop calling people geeks for being into computers. You people might have tried to turn it into a compliment because you were bullied with the term all through school, but for real people, the term is an insult.
Going to the bar, or going out to eat isn't consuming, it's socialising. The drink/food is merely the catalyst. Shopping is maintenance, it's necessary to survive.
I suppose that's the risk you take when you go private. If you're short for cash, why would you be paying for private health insurance? The NHS isn't THAT bad.
The last one. People who put that much time into MMORPGs tend to do so to escape the misery of their reality. People with great exciting lives generally don't need an electronic subsitute life.
But why? If it doesn't you......then you go to prison for tax evasion. This isn't a trivial utility that draws some crap on your screen, this is fucking serious. The only way to even know if the software has worked or not is to do the taxes by hand, thereby eliminating the entire point of using software to do it.
But he's living worse than someone with no ambition stacking shelves. If living in a tiny flat, being permanently malnourished and working your bollocks off for nothing counts as success, what on earth counts as failure? Living in a ditch drinking sewer water?
I don't think your company has the right idea. With no sales commission, there's no incentive to be incredibly successful, or to put extreme effort in. I've known companies with no sales commission, and the sales team usually just coast. When you cut the direct link between performance and rewards, you destroy the motivation, and you lose the important corporate culture of rewarding success and punishing failure.
If they worked out a good system of making money from it, it's definitely something to emulate. It doesn't matter if a company crashes and burns if you make a profit from it.
Either that or it's just another lame PR stunt to make the slashdot fanboys all simultaneously ejaculate.
The corrupt their website to promote their own interests, get caught, then just carry on as if nothing has happened, declare that they've 'seen the error of their ways' and all is forgiven.
The main problems with the shitty new star wars films isn't the actual plot, it's the awful dialogue, the awful score, the awful CGI, the awful dull screenplay, the awfully irritating characters and the complete lack of tension, emotion or adrenaline. I mean, in the first one, they spent most of the film sat about bitching about politics. Who goes to a star wars film to see politics in space? People watch star wars films to see spaceships and lightsabres, not some face-painted bint flying about bitching at people.
Not evil? They do relatively 'evil' things, then when they get caught say 'oh it was only an accident', then change things back again as if they'd never done anything wrong. Any other company would be criticised for doing something like this. This slashdot-based Google cock-sucking HAS to stop, the integrity of this site is as stake as the fanboys mindlessly praise anything that Google do. Even when they do things wrong people try to justify it, when they'd criticise any other company.
As for the story title 'Google punishes self', I fail to see how giving themselves some free PR counts as punishment. What will be their next self-imposed 'punishment'? Making a large public donation to charity?
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Not really. It means all the eggs are in one basket. If you've got a problem with cdrecord, say for instance it doesn't work on your setup, none of your burning programs will work. It's good to see a Linux app that has a proper low-level API rather than being just another wrapper.
How much is Apple paying you for all these stories?
And they say Linux isn't ready for the desktop! I for one have problems burning DVDs under Linux, it only seems to write at 0.5 speed, even though the drive AND the disks go up to 8 speed. K3b seems to ignore the speed I select, and using the command-line utilities directly gives the same result.
Although it's good that Linux by default comes with free CD/DVD burning utilities, rather than making you hunt the Internet for one which doesn't either contain spyware or mean giving up your credit card number.
Perhaps they have useful things to do instead.
Just what slashdot needs, first posts asking loaded questions in order to market Apple products. How much did you bribe the editors to get that first post, Mr Jobs?
So what, I couldn't even get into York, so you get no sympathy from me. Anyway who cares what goes on at Cambridge? Bunch of fucking rich wankers.
That's the 'cheat' bit, the only part in the whole advert that didn't happen by itself.
Also this is the most overrated advert ever. Has absolutely nothing to do with the product, doesn't demonstrate what's good about the cars at all. Also didn't do much to make people notice what it was advertising, most people couldn't tell you who did the advert, only referring to it as 'the advert with all those things that hit other things and made things roll up ramps'. In fact this slashdot page is the only thing that told me it was a honda advert.
If name is anything to go by, HD-DVD won't win. It's five syllables long! The two Ds in a row wasn't a masterstroke either. Blue-ray sounds a lot better, it rolls off the tongue.
One has to wonder what marketing genus wanted to call their product beta anyway
Google?
Women don't want to change their things. They don't want to take a man who's completely undesirable to them and make him desirable. You watch too much TV.
Or you could stop calling people geeks for being into computers. You people might have tried to turn it into a compliment because you were bullied with the term all through school, but for real people, the term is an insult.
Or more likely, how to find one who isn't either:
1. Fat
2. Smelly
3. Unkempt
4. Socially awkward
5. Inexperienced
6. Spotty
7. Boring
Going to the bar, or going out to eat isn't consuming, it's socialising. The drink/food is merely the catalyst. Shopping is maintenance, it's necessary to survive.
Actually that formula only counts up to the age of consent, so you're good for anything born up to 1989.
How does she pay for it? If she's got no job, how does she pay for the Internet and the WOW subscription? And that on top of rent, food, bills etc?
I suppose that's the risk you take when you go private. If you're short for cash, why would you be paying for private health insurance? The NHS isn't THAT bad.
Actually there have been democracies for thousands of years, but don't let that stop you from thinking that the world started two-hundred years ago.
The last one. People who put that much time into MMORPGs tend to do so to escape the misery of their reality. People with great exciting lives generally don't need an electronic subsitute life.
But why? If it doesn't you... ...then you go to prison for tax evasion. This isn't a trivial utility that draws some crap on your screen, this is fucking serious. The only way to even know if the software has worked or not is to do the taxes by hand, thereby eliminating the entire point of using software to do it.
But he's living worse than someone with no ambition stacking shelves. If living in a tiny flat, being permanently malnourished and working your bollocks off for nothing counts as success, what on earth counts as failure? Living in a ditch drinking sewer water?
I don't think your company has the right idea. With no sales commission, there's no incentive to be incredibly successful, or to put extreme effort in. I've known companies with no sales commission, and the sales team usually just coast. When you cut the direct link between performance and rewards, you destroy the motivation, and you lose the important corporate culture of rewarding success and punishing failure.
If they worked out a good system of making money from it, it's definitely something to emulate. It doesn't matter if a company crashes and burns if you make a profit from it.
Really? I thought it was because he practically copied the title (like a lot of the films) straight from Tolkien?
Either that or it's just another lame PR stunt to make the slashdot fanboys all simultaneously ejaculate.
The corrupt their website to promote their own interests, get caught, then just carry on as if nothing has happened, declare that they've 'seen the error of their ways' and all is forgiven.
The main problems with the shitty new star wars films isn't the actual plot, it's the awful dialogue, the awful score, the awful CGI, the awful dull screenplay, the awfully irritating characters and the complete lack of tension, emotion or adrenaline. I mean, in the first one, they spent most of the film sat about bitching about politics. Who goes to a star wars film to see politics in space? People watch star wars films to see spaceships and lightsabres, not some face-painted bint flying about bitching at people.
Not evil? They do relatively 'evil' things, then when they get caught say 'oh it was only an accident', then change things back again as if they'd never done anything wrong. Any other company would be criticised for doing something like this. This slashdot-based Google cock-sucking HAS to stop, the integrity of this site is as stake as the fanboys mindlessly praise anything that Google do. Even when they do things wrong people try to justify it, when they'd criticise any other company.
As for the story title 'Google punishes self', I fail to see how giving themselves some free PR counts as punishment. What will be their next self-imposed 'punishment'? Making a large public donation to charity?