Read Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow. It's a little (OK, a lot) further out than 10 years, but an excellent picture of a truly interconnected wireless society.
I want my whuffie!
20 bucks is still too much for a crappy CD, and 50 is way too much for a crappy game. They can charge it because we keep paying it. If you stop buying their crappy product, they will get the message.
Are any of those *books* a dictionary, by chance? Because you need one.
Improved grammer(sic) and spelling skills, my ass. I can't even begin to pick this one apart. Seeing as how it's from an AC, I think I just won't.
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Shakespeare is not Middle English. Chaucer is Middle English, Shakespeare is early Modern.
The best way I've found to teach people to read Shakespeare's writing easily is to start off reading it out loud. That's the way it was intended, after all.
They're not going to kill it; they're going to sell it.
MS's purpose has always been to make money. Now that *NIX, Linux especially, is gaining ground, they are going to buy up whatever they can get their hands on for the purpose of making sure that Bill's pockets stay full.
MS does not *really* care about the operating system. That's why it costs $200 (or less) and the Office and development suites cost $500 and up. The OS is just to make sure that you have to buy their products (because they won't run on any other OS).
So, if they start selling the best tools and applications for the *NIX environment, it won't matter to them if the OS is GPL'ed, free, or whatever. You still have to write a check to Bill to get your software.
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From here it's just a short step to transparent aluminum. Star Trek, here we come! ;-)
I'd like to go karma-whoring and leave an interesting comment, but I find I just don't care about DRM right now. Funny, that.
Maybe it's hosted by Google. Didn't you read? 10,000 servers!
Read Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow. It's a little (OK, a lot) further out than 10 years, but an excellent picture of a truly interconnected wireless society.
I want my whuffie!
I'm sorry, but every time I see this title I think "Happy Fun Ball" for some reason.
Do NOT taunt happy fun ball...
20 bucks is still too much for a crappy CD, and 50 is way too much for a crappy game. They can charge it because we keep paying it.
If you stop buying their crappy product, they will get the message.
No, no, no! This just can't be! I cannot believe that Microsoft would do such a thing, that they would...umm...hold on...this is what they always do.
This is news?
pie, dolt. He put it in her pie.
Sheesh...
My god, you're boring.
Princess Bride. Inigo says it to Vizzini (all spelled wrong, I'm sure) after the fourth of fifth time V. says "Incontheivable" (sic).
Are any of those *books* a dictionary, by chance? Because you need one.
Improved grammer(sic) and spelling skills, my ass. I can't even begin to pick this one apart. Seeing as how it's from an AC, I think I just won't.
Iridar
Shakespeare is not Middle English. Chaucer is Middle English, Shakespeare is early Modern.
The best way I've found to teach people to read Shakespeare's writing easily is to start off reading it out loud. That's the way it was intended, after all.
Iridar
They're not going to kill it; they're going to sell it.
MS's purpose has always been to make money. Now that *NIX, Linux especially, is gaining ground, they are going to buy up whatever they can get their hands on for the purpose of making sure that Bill's pockets stay full.
MS does not *really* care about the operating system. That's why it costs $200 (or less) and the Office and development suites cost $500 and up. The OS is just to make sure that you have to buy their products (because they won't run on any other OS).
So, if they start selling the best tools and applications for the *NIX environment, it won't matter to them if the OS is GPL'ed, free, or whatever. You still have to write a check to Bill to get your software.
How about "Moore's Blind Guess"?
Let's be realistic - "Sub-commander Taco"
Congrats, guys!
Simple. Make fixing bugs illegal...oh, wait, MS is already working on that ;-)
Try reading Flatland (Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (Penguin Classics)). It should answer most of your questions about multi-dimensional perspective.
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