In this case I do not think that a war in a good old VHS vs. Betamax fashion is a bad thing. Perhaps competition will lead to a better standard and we (consumers) will not have to put up with macrovision and region coding crap that has polluted the DVD format. If the entire standard is at stake perhaps the competing corporations will focus more on what is good for the consumers than what is good for the content deliverers.
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In Sweden, most people don't pay taxes You made this up yourself? The only ones who don't pay taxes in Sweden are students (if you don't count the 25% VAT).
the bottom bracket pays 0%, and the upper bracket, which begins at 10% above the mean wage earned amounts to a tax of 57%
Totaly wrong. Just isnt so.
with ultra-low unemployment, Yeah, only like 7-8% or so.
inflation, OK, you had a lucky guess....
national debt, but just one:)
I don't hate the country I live in... but trust me, it ain't heaven. A lot of your "facts" was true during the 70'-80'. High standards and low unemployment was kept by huge national debt. and many people where employed by the goverment. This ended with a minor krash in the begining of the 90'. Now it's more or less like any othe country in the EU.
Open source coders do it for fun. Low-level stuff is by far more fun than moving a fscking button 2mm to the right just to get it perfect in apperance.
You are right that this is why windos is the more popular than gnome on the desktop. But if open source coders' main interest was HCI and design, and thous would be willing to do what you ask of them, there would never have been any linux in the first place.
Yesterday just after I made a complete reinstall of Mandrake9.1, guess what? Yeah that's right: Mandrake9.2 is out! And now, just when I finished installing Mozilla, firebird and thunderbird, guess what? New releases! Gaahaa... I hate computers. I hate the open source community. You can all goto Redmond.
It's nice to see that there is at least one person left who belives that the fines should reflect the crimes commited and not reflect how much the riiia wants to scare people.
1) Fasttrack releases VoIP software (http://www.skype.com), which people like and use because it's a nice idea.
2) Big brother tries to regulate VoIP.
3 )Big brother sues Fasttrack but fails because Fasttrack registered their company god-knows-where.
4) Big brother goes after and sues the shit out of the Skype users, including a 10 year old girl, who realized she was doing something wrong but couldn't care less, and a 56 year old woman, who enjoys rap, but hasn't touched a computer ever.
Actually he is right. I can see no market for this product. The advance segment (that'd be us then) would be interested in this product if it had features like Raid-1, extra 3,5"-space, very low noice etc. The "masses" won't be interested either, but because it's to advanced. For instance: Most "normal" people I know with two computers have only one of them connected to the Internet. Setting up a simple connection sharing is waaay out of their legue.
Sure, I'll wish them good luck, but I think they'll fail so don't invest all your money here.
It is a very good thing that the letter is an open one. So that we could discover all the errors and incorrectness in it. It is however very bad that the letter isn't free, so we could fix them.
It's like when Microsoft gives away Xboxes for (almost) free cuz they make their money selling games that cost about 1/5 of the box-price eatch....Hey! Why can't MS start making PC's? The price tag for a state of the art machine would be like $200!
If a non-american company -PIRATES- mickey mouse into their own release. What will happen? Since American law isn't (yet) applicable in the (most of it anyway) rest of the world is it?
And since we'll all be using the Internet, where everything is available to everyone, instaid of TV/VCR in the near future I cannot see how one nations copyright laws will have an effect at all. For now? Perhaps. In 10 years? No way! We'll all be watching streeming broadcasts from some island nobodys ever heard of then.
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Nah, thats white phosphorous your thinking about.
Yeah, so you get a better operating system AND you save 40$/year.
In this case I do not think that a war in a good old VHS vs. Betamax fashion is a bad thing. Perhaps competition will lead to a better standard and we (consumers) will not have to put up with macrovision and region coding crap that has polluted the DVD format. If the entire standard is at stake perhaps the competing corporations will focus more on what is good for the consumers than what is good for the content deliverers.
In Sweden, most people don't pay taxes
:)
You made this up yourself? The only ones who don't pay taxes in Sweden are students (if you don't count the 25% VAT).
the bottom bracket pays 0%, and the upper bracket, which begins at 10% above the mean wage earned amounts to a tax of 57%
Totaly wrong. Just isnt so.
with ultra-low unemployment,
Yeah, only like 7-8% or so.
inflation,
OK, you had a lucky guess....
national debt,
but just one
I don't hate the country I live in... but trust me, it ain't heaven. A lot of your "facts" was true during the 70'-80'. High standards and low unemployment was kept by huge national debt. and many people where employed by the goverment. This ended with a minor krash in the begining of the 90'. Now it's more or less like any othe country in the EU.
You are right that this is why windos is the more popular than gnome on the desktop. But if open source coders' main interest was HCI and design, and thous would be willing to do what you ask of them, there would never have been any linux in the first place.
My dime anyway.
mmmmm, ISO-8 bit PC cards...
Don't feed the troll. nuff said.
...has been awarded
Yes! It is indeed a lottery.
...the first cluster on the hd breaks.
"If it's illegal in America, host it in Uzbekistan," snapped the 14-year-old.
Yesterday just after I made a complete reinstall of Mandrake9.1, guess what? Yeah that's right: Mandrake9.2 is out! And now, just when I finished installing Mozilla, firebird and thunderbird, guess what? New releases! Gaahaa... I hate computers. I hate the open source community. You can all goto Redmond.
Totaly agree. Let's give him a good bashing now shall we?
(Well, geeks might, but we already know they're not the exact epitomy of coolness). Eeh? Ever heard of a movie about a hacker named neo?
It's nice to see that there is at least one person left who belives that the fines should reflect the crimes commited and not reflect how much the riiia wants to scare people.
All your beowulf clusters ARE belong to us..... God, that joke was so long ago people are forgetting how it went. Do your homework: here
In Soviet Russia you weren't allowed to crack codes. Today it's the other way around...
Actually he is right. I can see no market for this product. The advance segment (that'd be us then) would be interested in this product if it had features like Raid-1, extra 3,5"-space, very low noice etc. The "masses" won't be interested either, but because it's to advanced. For instance: Most "normal" people I know with two computers have only one of them connected to the Internet. Setting up a simple connection sharing is waaay out of their legue. Sure, I'll wish them good luck, but I think they'll fail so don't invest all your money here.
It is a very good thing that the letter is an open one. So that we could discover all the errors and incorrectness in it. It is however very bad that the letter isn't free, so we could fix them.
Sure this letter is really open? No strings? Will I be sued if I don't include parts of this letter into my own?
Well I guess. Every action has an equal opposite reaction. Right my fellow Windows lovers?
It's like when Microsoft gives away Xboxes for (almost) free cuz they make their money selling games that cost about 1/5 of the box-price eatch. ...Hey! Why can't MS start making PC's? The price tag for a state of the art machine would be like $200!
>From each according to his ability; to each >according to his need."
Errr, I think you just described the open source model here... hmmm, guess I'm a commie then.
If a non-american company -PIRATES- mickey mouse into their own release. What will happen? Since American law isn't (yet) applicable in the (most of it anyway) rest of the world is it? And since we'll all be using the Internet, where everything is available to everyone, instaid of TV/VCR in the near future I cannot see how one nations copyright laws will have an effect at all. For now? Perhaps. In 10 years? No way! We'll all be watching streeming broadcasts from some island nobodys ever heard of then.
all in norweigian... http://www.digi.no/dtno.nsf/pub/md20030107114651_q iz_14357518