Strangely enough, Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell agree with the Iraqi cleric that 9/11 was an act of God. While you are thinking about those hardline religious folks, keep that in mind.
So the after years of engine development time, paying scores of programmers, companies should be just give their technology away for free to anyone who wants it.
That's already happening to a large extent. A lot of the work of 3D drawing is handled in the OpenGL drivers (or Direct3D drivers if you want to write for only one platform.) Anybody can use these technologies "for free", and they do. The game industry still brings in more money than the movie industry, in spite of this give-away.
hardware is optimized to work with each other more closely then a normal PC
The CPU and video chip work more closely because they have to. There is only one memory bank. In a normal PC architecture, the video card has its own memory (usually more than 64MB these days) and can access it without putting the CPU into a wait state. It's a cheap architecture (actually the same idea as the PC-jr video/CPU memory!) but not good for performance at all.
Yes price fixing is bad, but I don't remember ever feeling like I overpaid for a CD or that a CD was too expensive.
If you buy a $15 CD about $1 (or less) of that goes to the artist. Another $3 or less goes to the cost of reproducing the thing. Let's say cost of production is $5. Now you're willing to pay $15, and they have got to get $5 back. What would be a fair price? $10? Who has control of the pricing? Guess what, it's them. Guess where they set the price. As high as the market will bear. Because they choke out the independents by controlling the distribution channels, they have the clout to set the price at higher than fair market rates. People would be willing to send CDs loaded with information or CDs full of MP3s to your door for a lot less than $15 in an open market.
Acting "sane and rational" about making profits quarter by quarter doesn't make a great policy for the long term. The idea that people like being treated like cattle has been tested time and time again. It always seems to work great for a while, then all of a sudden there is a commotion, and people are being lined up against the wall.
Why would anybody want a tablet PC, Windows or Linux based? Handwriting, even with 100% accurate machine reading, is several times slower than typing. It makes sense on PDA's that are too small to host a workable keyboard, but by the time you get something as big as a Sony Clie PEG-UX50 (still small enough to fit in a pocket) it is time to offer a keyboard.
What do you mean, "it cuts both ways"? Because I have a right to express my opinions about you, then you have a right to sue me for libel? No, when something cuts boths ways, that means if you have a right to give your opinion of me, then I should have a right to give an opinion about you. That is fairness, in a nutshell.
Are you saying that because some opinions are biased, that nobody should be able to make their opinions public? That is the choice you face, support open communication, or call for a ban on everyone's opinions, or call for a review board to approve acceptable posts.
I'd like to see how Linux will prevent it's software from being used this way.
Because Linux is open source, people can see if there is tracking software inside, and remove it if they want to do so. That is how Linux will prevent it's software from being used this way.
The decision to use DR-DOS or MS-DOS for the hardware vendors was made at the beta phase. That's why it was so important. Here's a better link that explains in more detail, with better technical info. Here's a quote: "While it's difficult to second-guess the precise goal of the encrypted and obfuscated AARD code, its results are clear enough. Windows beta sites that used DR DOS rather than MS-DOS might have been scared into not using DR DOS."
Win 3.1 could run on top of MS-DOS or on top of DR-DOS (Digital Research DOS.) When you would start Win 3.1 on DR-DOS you would get an error message (that said ERROR) unsuportted OS detected. This effectively killed the ability of third party PC makers to sell DR-DOS + Win 3.1 preinstalled. Here is one site that gives the story. (Features Caldera too, eh.)
So, are you saying that you honestly believe that with regard to the voting population, the majority can be a minority?
Perhaps you believe that 43% of the popular vote is a preponderance.
The normal English meaning (3a: in the M-W you site) is simply over half. In the electoral college, Clinton (and Bush) had real majorities, I'm sure you would agree.
Majority means more than half, not just the largest slice. Neither 43% nor 49.24% qualify, so by my count Clinton did not get the majority of the popular vote in either election.
$50/year now, while MS market share is below 50% of the market. What do you think the charge will be per year (or perhaps even per use) if they acheive a 95% MS market share?
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Strangely enough, Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell agree with the Iraqi cleric that 9/11 was an act of God. While you are thinking about those hardline religious folks, keep that in mind.
Modern journalists are talking about the fossil crinoid stem. If some more of these turn up, it will be pretty exciting!
And you can reach his lawyers at:
fi@sco.com
Acting "sane and rational" about making profits quarter by quarter doesn't make a great policy for the long term. The idea that people like being treated like cattle has been tested time and time again. It always seems to work great for a while, then all of a sudden there is a commotion, and people are being lined up against the wall.
Why would anybody want a tablet PC, Windows or Linux based? Handwriting, even with 100% accurate machine reading, is several times slower than typing. It makes sense on PDA's that are too small to host a workable keyboard, but by the time you get something as big as a Sony Clie PEG-UX50 (still small enough to fit in a pocket) it is time to offer a keyboard.
If SuSE is now SUSE, is YaST now YAST?
What do you mean, "it cuts both ways"? Because I have a right to express my opinions about you, then you have a right to sue me for libel? No, when something cuts boths ways, that means if you have a right to give your opinion of me, then I should have a right to give an opinion about you. That is fairness, in a nutshell.
Are you saying that because some opinions are biased, that nobody should be able to make their opinions public? That is the choice you face, support open communication, or call for a ban on everyone's opinions, or call for a review board to approve acceptable posts.
Parent post is underrated, it is not offtopic at all.
Actually the requirement is
gun AND bullet AND (person OR dog)
...and on the other side the number is 22,118,509. Still, per capita is the only fair way to look at things like this.
The decision to use DR-DOS or MS-DOS for the hardware vendors was made at the beta phase. That's why it was so important. Here's a better link that explains in more detail, with better technical info. Here's a quote: "While it's difficult to second-guess the precise goal of the encrypted and obfuscated AARD code, its results are clear enough. Windows beta sites that used DR DOS rather than MS-DOS might have been scared into not using DR DOS."
Please mod parent up.
Win 3.1 could run on top of MS-DOS or on top of DR-DOS (Digital Research DOS.) When you would start Win 3.1 on DR-DOS you would get an error message (that said ERROR) unsuportted OS detected. This effectively killed the ability of third party PC makers to sell DR-DOS + Win 3.1 preinstalled. Here is one site that gives the story. (Features Caldera too, eh.)
Don't keep your fealings all bottled up... tell us what you really think!
So, are you saying that you honestly believe that with regard to the voting population, the majority can be a minority?
Perhaps you believe that 43% of the popular vote is a preponderance.
The normal English meaning (3a: in the M-W you site) is simply over half. In the electoral college, Clinton (and Bush) had real majorities, I'm sure you would agree.
Majority means more than half, not just the largest slice. Neither 43% nor 49.24% qualify, so by my count Clinton did not get the majority of the popular vote in either election.