Well, sure, strictly speaking I'd rather pay more than less.
Well then come right into my new online shop, my friend! Have you been getting your air for free till now? You'll be kicking yourself when I tell you that we have it for the full price of $15/liter (+s&h).
I am frustrated by these things too. Our ISP just made us change our ADSL setup to help them "track us better" and "cut down on the 20% of the users generating 80% of the traffic". The best bit is that our connection is capped at 128k! (not K).
On the other hand, things like "if only the world would protest" sound a bit self-righteous. I don't personally know how much bandwidth costs ISPs, but presumably there is a point beyond which your account is being subsidised by the other customers.
At that point, the ISP can either: eat the costs (unlikely) pass the cost on to all users, and possibly lose the very people who they are making their profits off (people who don't download very much) for whom it will no longer be value for money, or Get rid of the users that don't make them money, or shift them onto more appropriate (read more expensive) plans.
All this is no excuse for companies promoting plans as 'unlimited' and then imposing limits, but it is unreasonable to expect profit-seeking companies to lose money providing you with your ideal broadband access.
In related news, future versions of all Microsoft products will autocorrect any occurance of the word "begin" with a suitable replacement.
The start button's current functionality will be replaced with s/^begin/start/g, executed with microsoft's closed perl fork. Larry Wall was quoted as saying "Why oh why did I use that stupid artistic license? I see now where Richard GNU/Stallman was coming from. GPL forever!". Microsoft chairman Bill Gates was heard to say "All your regexp are belong to us".
Sure, we all read about MTBF being 500,000 hours for new drives but that's a pipe dream. Drives burn out every single day.
Can't quite work out this sentence. Drives burn out every day? Stars burn out every single day (maybe they don't, but you get the idea) but that doesn't mean stars don't have long lifetimes (hint: they do)
When Joe User goes to install 8.2 six months from now after X number of holes have been found, it'll automatically bring the system up to the current patch level _before_ bringing the entire system online.
Where is it going to get the patches without going online?
I would love to have a DP 1 GHz with dual Apple 17" Studio displays.
Yes, that'd be cool. To get full usage out of it though, you'd have two VMWare (the mac equivalent) systems running, one on each monitor! And you'd have two mice and two keyboards and two...
Should that be Mono +.net >= Mono? I have seen no real evidence that.net is non-zero.
I know mono is real (i can *download* it), but.net seems a bit more complex. I think the real part of.net is the developers toolkit, while the imaginary part is the passport stuff that no-one will ever use.
Complex numbers have no intrinsic order, but the inequality could be |Mono+.net|>|mono|. Fortunately this means that if they are a disaster, then the magnitude of microsofts disaster will be bigger than mono's!
was "Outdated Systems View". Looks cool, you hit a button and your floppy drive starts spitting out ticker tape and the screen shrinks and displays in monochrome "Insert card, face down, 9 edge first"
I find that a movie worth watching is worth watching again
Offtopic rant time! My variant on this is that a movie worth watching is worth downloading - it takes a day or so and is a hassle, so I don't waste my time watching crap movies. Sure, it's piracy, but I'm not going to buy a DVD drive that will only work with certain movies and may be obsoleted to fix the broken region coding. I'm also not going to wait a year for the VHS, this is *much* less convenient for me than watching it on my computer.
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The Word/Excel/PwrPoint/Access replacement applications are there, and in my opinion, better than the M$ Programs they replace.
But they don't have the essential feature: a Microsoft Logo.
If you have to migrate from MS office to something else, while changing OS etc, the benefit shrinks into oblivion compared to the effort and hassle of getting it working, the risk it won't be 100% bug-for-bug compatible, the time spent adjusting to the new software and so on.
They did, and you didn't. You just used what came with windows 98, as you didn't have any other choice that didn't involve downloading a 10MB browser over a dodgy 33.6 dialup.
Yeah, finally the region coding is effective. They've managed to stop you buying a copy to play at home (they frown on 'fair use'), and forced you to download a DVD rip from kazaa.
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I always wondered what color those quarks really were...
Well then come right into my new online shop, my friend! Have you been getting your air for free till now? You'll be kicking yourself when I tell you that we have it for the full price of $15/liter (+s&h).
On the other hand, things like "if only the world would protest" sound a bit self-righteous. I don't personally know how much bandwidth costs ISPs, but presumably there is a point beyond which your account is being subsidised by the other customers.
At that point, the ISP can either:
eat the costs (unlikely)
pass the cost on to all users, and possibly lose the very people who they are making their profits off (people who don't download very much) for whom it will no longer be value for money, or
Get rid of the users that don't make them money, or shift them onto more appropriate (read more expensive) plans.
All this is no excuse for companies promoting plans as 'unlimited' and then imposing limits, but it is unreasonable to expect profit-seeking companies to lose money providing you with your ideal broadband access.
Only if you put him in head first.
Damn americans. Miles are *longer* than kilometres.
And /. Imagine what it would be like to bandwidth costs to be slashdotted every day!
Oh yes? Stick a fake story about KDE and GNOME merging on it and submit it to slashdot.
We will melt your computer.
Yeah, but those iBooks cost $4.50 more than the Dell and Acer, and they won't run Microsoft Pinball XP!
And a grendel, and grendel's mother, and a house for them to live in...
A million years later...
Linus: Yes! I've finally done it! Linux is brilliant! Even better than... damn. I didn't realise Linux was so good!
The start button's current functionality will be replaced with s/^begin/start/g, executed with microsoft's closed perl fork. Larry Wall was quoted as saying "Why oh why did I use that stupid artistic license? I see now where Richard GNU/Stallman was coming from. GPL forever!". Microsoft chairman Bill Gates was heard to say "All your regexp are belong to us".
Can't quite work out this sentence. Drives burn out every day? Stars burn out every single day (maybe they don't, but you get the idea) but that doesn't mean stars don't have long lifetimes (hint: they do)
Where is it going to get the patches without going online?
Yes, that'd be cool. To get full usage out of it though, you'd have two VMWare (the mac equivalent) systems running, one on each monitor! And you'd have two mice and two keyboards and two...
Should that be Mono + .net >= Mono? I have seen no real evidence that .net is non-zero.
I know mono is real (i can *download* it), but .net seems a bit more complex. I think the real part of .net is the developers toolkit, while the imaginary part is the passport stuff that no-one will ever use.
Complex numbers have no intrinsic order, but the inequality could be |Mono+.net|>|mono|. Fortunately this means that if they are a disaster, then the magnitude of microsofts disaster will be bigger than mono's!
But not so many .NET users...
was "Outdated Systems View". Looks cool, you hit a button and your floppy drive starts spitting out ticker tape and the screen shrinks and displays in monochrome "Insert card, face down, 9 edge first"
Offtopic rant time! My variant on this is that a movie worth watching is worth downloading - it takes a day or so and is a hassle, so I don't waste my time watching crap movies. Sure, it's piracy, but I'm not going to buy a DVD drive that will only work with certain movies and may be obsoleted to fix the broken region coding. I'm also not going to wait a year for the VHS, this is *much* less convenient for me than watching it on my computer.
But they don't have the essential feature: a Microsoft Logo.
If you have to migrate from MS office to something else, while changing OS etc, the benefit shrinks into oblivion compared to the effort and hassle of getting it working, the risk it won't be 100% bug-for-bug compatible, the time spent adjusting to the new software and so on.
They did, and you didn't. You just used what came with windows 98, as you didn't have any other choice that didn't involve downloading a 10MB browser over a dodgy 33.6 dialup.
Yep, people will apologize to offices instead of officers because they can't tell the difference, they just see one all encompassing BSOD.
What? Winamp goat elected president? Can't you tell a goat from a llama?
NoItAint.com!
Yeah, finally the region coding is effective. They've managed to stop you buying a copy to play at home (they frown on 'fair use'), and forced you to download a DVD rip from kazaa.
Factually *and* grammatically incorrect. Maybe they meant "the Sony product runs Linux"?