Apple has been expanding their market significantly, which means only 25-50% of their computer sales are to existing Macintosh owners. (and the brand loyalty is ~ 81%, so despite teh complaints, they won't defect). Most consumer level video equipment is now USB. iPod has been USB for quite a while now. If you're a PC switcher, any external drives are probably also USB. If you need firewire video or audio, you're probably in the pro market. Johnny iPod doesn't care if he has firewire when he's writing up his term papers.
It's open in the same way SPARC is open. If you own a fab plant, you can produce your own SPARC chips. If you own an overclocked celeron, you can't update the microcode and turn it into an 8-core niagara.
Likewise, if you design/manufacture cell phones, you can put Android on it (instead of symbian or windows mobile or some other linux variant). If you're an end user, it doesn't matter.
Barack Obama supports Linux. I did some freelance work for his North Carolina campaign headquarters, settting up a gentoo box for use as their intranet server. I met BO and talked about linux and modernizing the Federal Government, access to information, etc. He'll probably be a very linux-friendly administration. It may not be year of the linux desktop yet, but it will be year of the linux whitehouse.
Well, there is a jackoff technique used by sailors involving a jar filled with worms. It's sort of symbiotic -- their slithery action helps blow your load, your load is their food source.
There is no fucking social security trust fund. You're borrowing money from yourself, spending it, and then pretending you still have it. That's Enron accounting at its worst.
You're ignoring the government's implicit (now explicit) backing of fannie mae/freddy mac which enabled more risk taking and distorted the market. Alan Greenspan testified to that effect in 2004/2005. You're also ignoring the part about the government (Bush, Clinton, and congress) encouraging more loans to low income/minority/subprime borrowers.
They should give their papers away for free and make money by selling audio versions on CD. Which they should also give away for free. But they can make money by selling coffee cups and tshirts.
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Linux is a kernel, retard.
Apple has been expanding their market significantly, which means only 25-50% of their computer sales are to existing Macintosh owners. (and the brand loyalty is ~ 81%, so despite teh complaints, they won't defect). Most consumer level video equipment is now USB. iPod has been USB for quite a while now. If you're a PC switcher, any external drives are probably also USB. If you need firewire video or audio, you're probably in the pro market. Johnny iPod doesn't care if he has firewire when he's writing up his term papers.
It's a $100,000 car. If you were going to buy one, you'd either write a check or you have enough (verifiable) income that you can still get a loan.
Does it include a reverse bayesian filter to generate stock market and h3rb@l \/i4gr@ spam?
ACORN paid him $1 apiece to register his characters to vote.
I'd tell you my OpenVMS uptime but it would be awkward and uncomfortable to see you cry.
It's open in the same way SPARC is open. If you own a fab plant, you can produce your own SPARC chips. If you own an overclocked celeron, you can't update the microcode and turn it into an 8-core niagara.
Likewise, if you design/manufacture cell phones, you can put Android on it (instead of symbian or windows mobile or some other linux variant). If you're an end user, it doesn't matter.
Google has a track record of slapping a beta label on something, pushing it out the door, and moving on to something else.
That's one place I don't want to see a demo!
mirror (no ads).
ZFS uses copy-on-write at the block level, so a snapshot takes no space, so the question doesn't really apply.
Barack Obama supports Linux. I did some freelance work for his North Carolina campaign headquarters, settting up a gentoo box for use as their intranet server. I met BO and talked about linux and modernizing the Federal Government, access to information, etc. He'll probably be a very linux-friendly administration. It may not be year of the linux desktop yet, but it will be year of the linux whitehouse.
discussing a politician within 60 days of an election is speech.
you completely shit on the first amendment with your campaign finance reform (aka incumbent protection). The sooner you die the better, asshole.
Well, there is a jackoff technique used by sailors involving a jar filled with worms. It's sort of symbiotic -- their slithery action helps blow your load, your load is their food source.
kevin dawson is H-1B.
Not that any of the developers would know it, but gash is a slang term for pussy.
Franklin Raines disagrees with you:
We have not been a major presence in the subprime market, but you can bet that under these goals, we will be.
There is no fucking social security trust fund. You're borrowing money from yourself, spending it, and then pretending you still have it. That's Enron accounting at its worst.
You're ignoring the government's implicit (now explicit) backing of fannie mae/freddy mac which enabled more risk taking and distorted the market. Alan Greenspan testified to that effect in 2004/2005. You're also ignoring the part about the government (Bush, Clinton, and congress) encouraging more loans to low income/minority/subprime borrowers.
They should give their papers away for free and make money by selling audio versions on CD. Which they should also give away for free. But they can make money by selling coffee cups and tshirts.
And there's a good chance government intervention was involved in the market failure.
by borrowing more money, of course.
it wasn't the war that ended the surplus, it was the .com bubble collapsing. And it was only a surplus if you include FICA contributions.
what if profits from curing baldness pay for the research that cures cancer?