They're already making loses, mainly due to the move away from dialups.
These days I personally feel there's no need for an ISP that provides so much content. They should seperate the ISP from the content provider and open their services up to the whole net, charging a monthly subscription.
AKA Puc Man in Japan. They renamed it to Pac in the western world due to the typeface used on the cabinet. The black outline of the typeface made it very easy to change the P to an F with a carefully placed strip of black sticky tape:)
These days it would be able to land slower since they would design a computer system to stabilise it at low speed. When Concorde flies at the landing speed of a normal jet it tends to be unstable and sways from side to side.
Dell can't sell a blank PC so they include FreeDOS, but to keep Microsoft happy I believe they still include the Windows license in the cost of the PC. No wonder the Windows usage stats always show large numbers of Windows users.
Fair enough, however the original owner probably bought the machine with a license and if they replace the computer with a new one they will probably get another license. So one more Microsoft monopoly tax payment has been made.
Try buying a brand name computer without a Microsoft license though, Microsoft throw their weight around whenever one of the major suppliers like Dell starts selling naked PCs.
Microsoft even go so far as to say that PCs without an OS installed are machines for pirates and even have a scheme where OEMs are rewarded for reporting people asking for such machines.
They don't seem to be able to comprehend that a customer may already own Windows or wish to install an alternative OS.
You might be able to run regedit and do it, the average PC user can't. You need to try teaching beginners how to use computers or work in a support department, then you'll see what the average computer user knows.
"but that the various installation routines and setup programs would either not work the way they were supposed to at all, or work sometimes and not others"
and of course you never get problems like this in Windows?
Even Microsoft's own software doesn't always work correctly with their own OS. Photo Editor which comes with Office 2000 doesn't work with Windows 2000 correctly if installed for a restricted/power user. Fixing that problem requires regedt32 and some small tweaks. Like i'm sure the average Windows user uses registry editors day in day out.
People have made devices which can continually run, however I believe the definition of such a device requires that it creates energy. Adding energy by starting the device by hand isn't allowed, by starting a machine you are giving the machine energy which it can use to continue producing energy.
Red Hat are a mature linux vendor, have ties with Oracle. They don't make hardware however and it's the hardware that gives Sun an edge, 64-bit, multiple cores, hot swap technology etc....
Some already use solder paste when fitting mod chips to consoles. You can dip the wire into it and give it a quick blast of heat while pressing the wire against the connection point.
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He'll sue citing the DMCA.
They're already making loses, mainly due to the move away from dialups.
These days I personally feel there's no need for an ISP that provides so much content. They should seperate the ISP from the content provider and open their services up to the whole net, charging a monthly subscription.
The web didn't exist in 1990.
AKA Puc Man in Japan. They renamed it to Pac in the western world due to the typeface used on the cabinet. The black outline of the typeface made it very easy to change the P to an F with a carefully placed strip of black sticky tape :)
These days it would be able to land slower since they would design a computer system to stabilise it at low speed. When Concorde flies at the landing speed of a normal jet it tends to be unstable and sways from side to side.
They were soon abandoned once Intel put their foot down, PPC NT didn't even leave beta did it?
Dell can't sell a blank PC so they include FreeDOS, but to keep Microsoft happy I believe they still include the Windows license in the cost of the PC. No wonder the Windows usage stats always show large numbers of Windows users.
With Bush in power you won't see many anti-trust trials, "that's unfair to those big business folks who give me my pocket money" he said :)
Fair enough, however the original owner probably bought the machine with a license and if they replace the computer with a new one they will probably get another license. So one more Microsoft monopoly tax payment has been made.
Pedantic :)
I mean own a licensed copy of Windows.
Try buying a brand name computer without a Microsoft license though, Microsoft throw their weight around whenever one of the major suppliers like Dell starts selling naked PCs.
Microsoft even go so far as to say that PCs without an OS installed are machines for pirates and even have a scheme where OEMs are rewarded for reporting people asking for such machines.
They don't seem to be able to comprehend that a customer may already own Windows or wish to install an alternative OS.
They are supposedly responsible for wizards.
The Microsoft Freedoom to Innovate Network
http://www.microsoft.com/freedomtoinnovate/
Wow, two news items, one of them is a fix to a big spam problem an another is about a court case.
I thought Microsoft was the source of all good ideas and they needed to protect their "Freedom to Innovate" from the wrath of the DOJ?
You might be able to run regedit and do it, the average PC user can't. You need to try teaching beginners how to use computers or work in a support department, then you'll see what the average computer user knows.
"but that the various installation routines and setup programs would either not work the way they were supposed to at all, or work sometimes and not others"
and of course you never get problems like this in Windows?
Even Microsoft's own software doesn't always work correctly with their own OS. Photo Editor which comes with Office 2000 doesn't work with Windows 2000 correctly if installed for a restricted/power user. Fixing that problem requires regedt32 and some small tweaks. Like i'm sure the average Windows user uses registry editors day in day out.
The difference is a Linux system could do this without a gui if needed.
1. Screensaver kicks in
:)
2. Projectionist plays an MP3 and it blasts out of the speaker.
3. Projectionist forgets to turn off Windows desktop sounds
and so on......
Is the "Lindows" tag irrelavent? it's just a board using DVD/media playback in the BIOS looking at the specs.
When will people learn that there's a lot in a name? :)
Using a not so memorable and hard to spell name is annoying as it's hard to associate that site with what its function is.
Personally I would have called it something catchy like debsource, debelopment, debresource etc..
Gravity is a force/effect, energy can be created utilising it.
and the lack of "you bastards" speaks volumes :)
People have made devices which can continually run, however I believe the definition of such a device requires that it creates energy. Adding energy by starting the device by hand isn't allowed, by starting a machine you are giving the machine energy which it can use to continue producing energy.
Red Hat are a mature linux vendor, have ties with Oracle. They don't make hardware however and it's the hardware that gives Sun an edge, 64-bit, multiple cores, hot swap technology etc....
Some already use solder paste when fitting mod chips to consoles. You can dip the wire into it and give it a quick blast of heat while pressing the wire against the connection point.