The thing that is probably going to be lost on 99% of the people reading this article and thinking the "dumb jocks" deserve it is the affects of sitting in a chair for many hours staring at monitors and making the same repetative movements day after day.
This is the dumbest fucking thing I've ever read. It just goes to show how idiots can come up with stupid ideas and believe they came to a rational conclusion.
Sweet! Next time, if you want to make it a little easier, you could just go buy the real book, scan every page with your all-in-one printer, then take the book back.
Sorry, I just needed to show off my tech savvy-ness.
Throwing arbitrary (and high) numbers out there isn't going to convince people you are right. If you want people to buy in to what you're saying, try to be more realistic or at least make it clear that your cost estimates are made up off the top of your head.
Anyway, this model really isn't all that different than what you're doing now. You don't own software now, you own licenses. And you do own licenses with today's model, but in the end is how you use them so different than your vision? You buy your license for as long as that version of Windows is useful, then buy another. In terms of net cost, they aren't going to be able to get away with the end result costing much more than it does today.
Time limited licenses are already the way of business applications. Companies don't "arbitrarily" lose access to the tools. If they allow the license to expire, they can't use it anymore. It isn't like one day they suddenly have no access anymore.
And you say you prefer to own your data? No shit? Are you implying that somehow this new version of windows is going to steal your data and give you access only when it wants? Once again, if you want people to take you seriously.. quit making shit up.
What a horrible attempt to use logic. IQ tests ask questions just like this and you would fail.
Jennifer Aniston = lean
Oprah Winfrey = fat
Kathy Griffen = leaner than Oprah Winfrey = Jennifer Aniston?
It's called pump priming, and it's how you end recessions. You have to spend money to make money. Create 200k jobs and the economy improves. See the Hoover Dam. I think this is a great idea. I mean, the idea to digitalize and standardize health records is painfully obvious and should have been done years ago, but there is going to be an unbelievable amount of work created by it. I read the first half of the article and my first thought was how the hell are they going to do this? Reading on, I found out they are going to do it by creating thousands of jobs. This is just about the best idea I've ever heard from a politician.
So, Vista failed because they didn't provide a public beta for it?
Did you read two words of the summary to interpret its meaning? They are releasing a public beta AND hoping to address the problems. That's like replying to "Microsoft hired 3 new programmers to work on Windows 7" with "Didn't they hire programmers to work on Vista?"
Yikes, I hope no one was using SQL Server. 6 months to move every system to a new operating system? Moving one single system is a huge effort that most companies wouldn't even think about doing in such a short time.
Thank you. I was thinking the exact same thing. It's like avoiding a certain doctor because you found out he had gotten sick. OP must be pretty simple minded.
I don't understand why you would do that. The only upside that I can see to a spinning disc would be noise, and if you're watching TV, how could you hear it? I'd spend a whole lot less money and get a whole lot bigger hard drive.
Here in Palo, Iowa, you can get naked 768k SDSL from the Palo Telephone Coop for $150 a month with a 2 year contract. I opted to go for the plan with a [no caller id, no call waiting, no voicemail] phone line for $105.:\
one SSD-based Wii game console, one SSD-based pocket media player And you're going to run a future OS on these that would benefit from optimization for an SSD?
(CompactFlash cards are SSDs in a smaller form factor that is signal-compatible with ATA.) I think that brings up the fact that, in an effort to sell more SSDs today, the manufacturers are really missing the boat on one of the most important aspects of SSDs. Why are they all in the same form factor as existing drives? They could be made so small, but they aren't taking advantage of it.
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The really surprising part of this story, to me, is that Microsoft didn't draft it's own, new license for this.
The thing that is probably going to be lost on 99% of the people reading this article and thinking the "dumb jocks" deserve it is the affects of sitting in a chair for many hours staring at monitors and making the same repetative movements day after day.
Q: Does anyone know of other great open source games that are truly 'open?'
A: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphabetical_list_of_open_source_games That was easy...
So what you're saying is... no?
"Add the new paintball mode ..."
I mean, seriously. Why? Why take a game where you pretend to shoot people and modify it so you are pretending to pretend to shoot people?
It would bring me great joy to see a video of you trying to arm wrestle an average high school football player.
This is the dumbest fucking thing I've ever read. It just goes to show how idiots can come up with stupid ideas and believe they came to a rational conclusion.
Sweet! Next time, if you want to make it a little easier, you could just go buy the real book, scan every page with your all-in-one printer, then take the book back.
Sorry, I just needed to show off my tech savvy-ness.
Throwing arbitrary (and high) numbers out there isn't going to convince people you are right. If you want people to buy in to what you're saying, try to be more realistic or at least make it clear that your cost estimates are made up off the top of your head.
Anyway, this model really isn't all that different than what you're doing now. You don't own software now, you own licenses. And you do own licenses with today's model, but in the end is how you use them so different than your vision? You buy your license for as long as that version of Windows is useful, then buy another. In terms of net cost, they aren't going to be able to get away with the end result costing much more than it does today.
Time limited licenses are already the way of business applications. Companies don't "arbitrarily" lose access to the tools. If they allow the license to expire, they can't use it anymore. It isn't like one day they suddenly have no access anymore.
And you say you prefer to own your data? No shit? Are you implying that somehow this new version of windows is going to steal your data and give you access only when it wants? Once again, if you want people to take you seriously.. quit making shit up.
What a horrible attempt to use logic. IQ tests ask questions just like this and you would fail. Jennifer Aniston = lean Oprah Winfrey = fat Kathy Griffen = leaner than Oprah Winfrey = Jennifer Aniston?
But the software was pretty decent for 1984, and I considered myself proud to have known the Touch Tablet in its authentic Atari glory.
He forgot to mention how completely worthless it is now and was the day it was made.
He actually said Linux users would never have any luck IN BED, and would need to use devices to satisfy themselves.
It's called pump priming, and it's how you end recessions. You have to spend money to make money. Create 200k jobs and the economy improves. See the Hoover Dam. I think this is a great idea. I mean, the idea to digitalize and standardize health records is painfully obvious and should have been done years ago, but there is going to be an unbelievable amount of work created by it. I read the first half of the article and my first thought was how the hell are they going to do this? Reading on, I found out they are going to do it by creating thousands of jobs. This is just about the best idea I've ever heard from a politician.
Lexus has promised to make the messages relevant to the car buyers.
Genius. Because who is more likely to be ready to buy a new car than someone that just bought a brand new one.
So, Vista failed because they didn't provide a public beta for it?
Did you read two words of the summary to interpret its meaning? They are releasing a public beta AND hoping to address the problems. That's like replying to "Microsoft hired 3 new programmers to work on Windows 7" with "Didn't they hire programmers to work on Vista?"
http://www.newertech.com/products/ministackv2_5.php
Unfortunately it matches the wrong tiny computer.
Yikes, I hope no one was using SQL Server. 6 months to move every system to a new operating system? Moving one single system is a huge effort that most companies wouldn't even think about doing in such a short time.
Thank you. I was thinking the exact same thing. It's like avoiding a certain doctor because you found out he had gotten sick. OP must be pretty simple minded.
Scientific studies have shown less than 99% of bread knife use is for killing people.
I don't understand why you would do that. The only upside that I can see to a spinning disc would be noise, and if you're watching TV, how could you hear it? I'd spend a whole lot less money and get a whole lot bigger hard drive.
What am I "getting" ? My passwords entered automatically for me? Yes, that is what I asked for.
"Let's propose tax cuts where it'll hurt em so they'll favor our new tax."
I've never had a problem with mine. Maybe you're doing something wrong. Seriously.
Who here really lets any password manager save any password they care about?
I do. And I bet at least one other person does.
Here in Palo, Iowa, you can get naked 768k SDSL from the Palo Telephone Coop for $150 a month with a 2 year contract. I opted to go for the plan with a [no caller id, no call waiting, no voicemail] phone line for $105. :\
one SSD-based Wii game console, one SSD-based pocket media player
And you're going to run a future OS on these that would benefit from optimization for an SSD?
(CompactFlash cards are SSDs in a smaller form factor that is signal-compatible with ATA.)
I think that brings up the fact that, in an effort to sell more SSDs today, the manufacturers are really missing the boat on one of the most important aspects of SSDs. Why are they all in the same form factor as existing drives? They could be made so small, but they aren't taking advantage of it.