The primary purpose of a car is to get to point B from point A.
The primary purpose of knives is to cut stuff (not people)
The primary purpose of computers is for business/personal use.
Irrespective of what some people around here say, the primary use of Modchips is to burn games that have been borrowed/rented. If you suggest otherwise, I think you need to get your head out of the sand.
As you can see, the primary purpose of your examples are legitimate, whereas the primary purpose of modchips is illegitimate (as *they* see it) That's how the difference between your examples and modchips can be explained.
They do? I'm sitting here looking at a Windows XP CD. That's pretty tangible to me. The binaries are pretty tangible too. So is the OS that my laptop is using right at this instant. XBOX? Tangible. You get the point.
The company is sitting on money that has not been put to much good use.
I doubt the money is under Bill Gates's matress. If it's in a bank, it's being put to good use...well, maybe not *good* use, but it is being put to use nevertheless.
Consider that without MS, there would a large software service industry with standards that one company could not just kill off or ignore easily, and that the profit margins would be smaller
Without MS, it would undoubtedly be some other company. Maybe IBM. They used to be evil. But now that they support OSS they aren't. Fair enough, I suppose.
A healthy economy has more money moving around, not sitting inside the banks of large corporations like MS
Again, the money just doesn't sit there. I'm no economist or banker, but I'm confident that this money is being invested to create new opportunities and new wealth for MS and others.
We (Canada) also interned our Japanese during WW2. Apparetnly, once the war was over, they got out of the camps to discover that we sold all their stuff while they were interned. Houses, and everything.
We're probably not as bad as some countries, but I assume we've done other stuff too. Being a Canadian, I find Canadian history immensely boring (Aside from about 1900 onwards).
Are you going to record your entire life, in case someone falsely accuses you of something?
No, but I'm recording the life of that hottie that lives next door to me....you know, just in case somebody, uhhh, falsely accuses her of something. Yeah, that's the ticket....
You will have no choice but to buy the newer product if this works properly.
I bought a digital camera in 2001. Surely it's obsolete by now. I've yet to see anything in the mail requiring me to buy a newer product. Although, maybe things are different in the US (or where-ever you're from)
You have no "rights" that can determine what they do with their product.
Once I buy it, it is my product. I can do what I want with my products. They have no right to tell me what I can do with it once I buy it.
Having said that, I generally disagree with people making music available for distribution over P2P. Same for software, movies, etc....
These strong-arm tactics make me less open to their point of view over time. Every time I hear about this person being sued, that new law, I cringe and reconsider by position.
No, you are wrong. The flawed security in Windows is a result of closed source.
If Linux (and that's a big if) is more secure than windows it's because it's derived from an OS that was network centric in it's very origins. The problem (as I see it) with MS Windows is that it started out as a OS for standalone computers. When networks became ubiquitous Microsoft tried to be everything to everybody/take over the universe and incorporate all the network stuff and the result is the big mess we see today.
If you would be equally proficient with both MS Office and OO.org, that would be telling something. However, I am pretty sure you are not. With that assumption, the only conclusion I can draw ATM is that using software you are not familiar with take more time, especially for advanced stuff like data validation. Duh.
While we're making assumptions, I'm going to assume he is a super Linux guru, and knows nothing about MS. Based on that assumption the only conclusion I can draw is that MS Office is much easier to use.
It seems kind of pointless to prove a point based on assumptions, but what do I know...my userID is 118 times higher than yours.
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You are missing one point, however....
The primary purpose of a car is to get to point B from point A.
The primary purpose of knives is to cut stuff (not people)
The primary purpose of computers is for business/personal use.
Irrespective of what some people around here say, the primary use of Modchips is to burn games that have been borrowed/rented. If you suggest otherwise, I think you need to get your head out of the sand.
As you can see, the primary purpose of your examples are legitimate, whereas the primary purpose of modchips is illegitimate (as *they* see it) That's how the difference between your examples and modchips can be explained.
I mean, they even MADE UP A CHARECTER FOR HIM TO FUCK!
What's the big deal. I do that all the time.
They could be. I'm not sure. With all the taxes I pay I'd never know.
Microsoft deals with intangible goods.
They do? I'm sitting here looking at a Windows XP CD. That's pretty tangible to me. The binaries are pretty tangible too. So is the OS that my laptop is using right at this instant. XBOX? Tangible. You get the point.
The company is sitting on money that has not been put to much good use.
I doubt the money is under Bill Gates's matress. If it's in a bank, it's being put to good use...well, maybe not *good* use, but it is being put to use nevertheless.
Consider that without MS, there would a large software service industry with standards that one company could not just kill off or ignore easily, and that the profit margins would be smaller
Without MS, it would undoubtedly be some other company. Maybe IBM. They used to be evil. But now that they support OSS they aren't. Fair enough, I suppose.
A healthy economy has more money moving around, not sitting inside the banks of large corporations like MS
Again, the money just doesn't sit there. I'm no economist or banker, but I'm confident that this money is being invested to create new opportunities and new wealth for MS and others.
First I'll take over IE. Then Office. Then Newfoundland. Then Windows. Then the WORLD! A-ha-ha-HA!
Christ, you can have Newfoundland.
The people on welfare would drop to about zero in Canada.
So more special effects don't make for a better film?
Did you go to the George Lucas school of film?
Special effects can't make a bad movie good. They might make a good movie better...which may be the case in your example. (IMHO, of course)
We (Canada) also interned our Japanese during WW2. Apparetnly, once the war was over, they got out of the camps to discover that we sold all their stuff while they were interned. Houses, and everything.
We're probably not as bad as some countries, but I assume we've done other stuff too. Being a Canadian, I find Canadian history immensely boring (Aside from about 1900 onwards).
Courier de boi? Yawn.
Ever since the merger they avoid any type of real news like the plague
Oh please, the plague hasn't been real news for hundreds of years.
Are you going to record your entire life, in case someone falsely accuses you of something?
No, but I'm recording the life of that hottie that lives next door to me....you know, just in case somebody, uhhh, falsely accuses her of something. Yeah, that's the ticket....
...or the America that interned Japanese during WW2, etc,etc...
People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
Assuming of course you're an American. And if not, I'm sure your country has committed some atrocity in the past. They all have.
You will have no choice but to buy the newer product if this works properly.
I bought a digital camera in 2001. Surely it's obsolete by now. I've yet to see anything in the mail requiring me to buy a newer product. Although, maybe things are different in the US (or where-ever you're from)
You have no "rights" that can determine what they do with their product.
Once I buy it, it is my product. I can do what I want with my products. They have no right to tell me what I can do with it once I buy it.
Having said that, I generally disagree with people making music available for distribution over P2P. Same for software, movies, etc....
These strong-arm tactics make me less open to their point of view over time. Every time I hear about this person being sued, that new law, I cringe and reconsider by position.
They seem to be confusing the ever popular dodge-ball with the somewhat less popular rule-ball....
I suspect this is quite accurate....
http://www.supershadow.com/starwars/map.html
Your motto:
Never use bigger words than you can chew!
Then you type:
he's...instead of 'his'
There's gotta be a mean-spirited joke in there somewhere....
No, you are wrong. The flawed security in Windows is a result of closed source.
If Linux (and that's a big if) is more secure than windows it's because it's derived from an OS that was network centric in it's very origins. The problem (as I see it) with MS Windows is that it started out as a OS for standalone computers. When networks became ubiquitous Microsoft tried to be everything to everybody/take over the universe and incorporate all the network stuff and the result is the big mess we see today.
If you would be equally proficient with both MS Office and OO.org, that would be telling something. However, I am pretty sure you are not. With that assumption, the only conclusion I can draw ATM is that using software you are not familiar with take more time, especially for advanced stuff like data validation. Duh.
While we're making assumptions, I'm going to assume he is a super Linux guru, and knows nothing about MS. Based on that assumption the only conclusion I can draw is that MS Office is much easier to use.
It seems kind of pointless to prove a point based on assumptions, but what do I know...my userID is 118 times higher than yours.
Off topic bit: Creed the band? Like they say, if I wanted to listen to Pearl Jam, I'd listen to Pearl Jam on topic bit: RIAA sucks and stuff.
rodents of unusual size.
The Princess Bride.
Next question please.
Troll?
Come on now. That was funny.
-- Opie a Canadian with a sense of humour.
Canada had Juno Beach.
why sell something once that lasts, when you could sell lots that break down?
I have a buddy that works at Ford and that's the mantra they chant every morning before their shifts start.
:)
washington is on the west coast?
...Washington DC that is...
It will be after "The Big One"
You've obviously met my co-workers then.
They aren't getting enough sex in the first place
enough?
As everybody around here is wont to say: You're new here aren't you.
What you should have said is: any.