All I am waiting for are these guys to find "machinery" there too.
I'm sure you wont have to wait long. I go to that site once in a blue moon just to get a good chuckle. Pretty much on any picture from any mission to any planet he can find "evidence" of alien artifacts, buildings, cities, sewer systems, irrigation pipes, drive-in theatres, etc.
Then sell them back in the states for $0.96 per song. For every song purchased, the customer comes out $0.03 ahead, and you're making a cool $0.20 profit!! (Minus gas, food, and lodging.)
I think it's accurate to say that most people on this planet, with the exception of Canadians, some Americans, and tourists to Canada, don't even know Ottawa exists.
Yah I don't know what prices the original poster was looking at, but broadband prices in Canada are comparable to what is the US and often cheaper. In Ontario I pay $45 for cable internet with speeds often aproaching 3Mb/sec. That's about $35 US, and that's about the normal price across Canada, unless you live in the bush.
If the free anti-virus you're using is AVG, you're asking for trouble.
I don't know, maybe Grisoft's retail version may be good, but about a year ago I downloaded about a dozen viruses just to see how well the free AVG Antivirus version, McAfee, & Norton detect them. Although far from an exaustive test, AVG missed about a third of the viruses, but Mcafee & Norton caught every one.
Free is good, but sometimes you do get what you pay for.
I think that's some of what the original poster was implying. So many people are disgusted with the state of pop, top-40, "make a catchy single and grab as many sales as we can", and "copy the lastest hit band" music that they are either tuning out or turning to alternatives, and either case these alternatives don't register on the music industry's sales charts.
This has nothing to do with POP-Thunderbird/Mozilla itself is creating a separate set of folders for each account instead of downloading mail from all POP servers into a common Inbox, which is what every other email app (Eudora, Outlook, Pegasus Mail, KMail,etc) on this planet does.
Thunderbirds' method is akin to requiring a separate postal mailbox for each unique sender of snailmail.
It's not like they have to wait two weeks to find out who has won. Results are counted within a couple of hours after polls close. Hardly what I would call an excessive amount of time.
"Microsoft argues that increased integration will cut down ongoing costs, maintenance and what not, but whether that will be the case has yet to be seen...
Yeah, like how integration of IE into windows OS has cut down on maintenance costs.
You're making a funny, right? Only if the open source software is free. And then the purchase price of software is only one factor in the ultimate price-there is support, IT, training, hardware. After you consider all the costs then purchase price probably is one of the smaller costs.
A day ago I received patent 6,606,659: The act of pressing the three keys Ctrl, Alt, & Delete on a keyboard simultaneously to achieve a desired effect.
I believe your patent infringes on my patent so you must get permission to use those keys. In fact earlier I was issued patent 6,606,658, a patent that patents patent infringement. I will be expecting two big cheques.:)
But they are not asking for it, SCO is. SCO is saying pay up or else, and he's just reacting to SCO's statements. It's not like linux users have been screaming for binary only licences all these years and SCO is finally providing the service.
And how many times can they get away with the marketing claim that "You need to buy our new OS because frankly our old OS sucks!" before consumers catch on?
They're getting more attention and anger transferred to them from virus writers because they're the biggest company in the industry.
That statement is definitely correct, but even if windows can be setup to provide the same level of security as linux, the fact that MS is being targeted to a much higher degree than linux makes MS systems much more vulnerable.
Ah, someone with a similar experience. I always seem to get tempted by the 'Mozilla is bloated and slow, Firebird is lightning fast' posts so I check out Firebird every few months but it never gives me any compelling reason to switch from Mozilla. Maybe on a PII or PIII machine Firebird may be faster, but with a 2GHz with 1GB ram the speed differences are imperceptible.
Yet, I haven't tried Firebird in linux for a while so I may give it another shot.
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Hmm...that gives me an idea. Any fuel specialists and ex-astronauts want to join my team?
Believe it or not, from time to time I come across some discussion where someone posts how much he misses program manager from win3.1.
I was thinking exactly the same thing. They must be betting he doesn't get caught.
All I am waiting for are these guys to find "machinery" there too.
I'm sure you wont have to wait long.
I go to that site once in a blue moon just to get a good chuckle. Pretty much on any picture from any mission to any planet he can find "evidence" of alien artifacts, buildings, cities, sewer systems, irrigation pipes, drive-in theatres, etc.
Then sell them back in the states for $0.96 per song. For every song purchased, the customer comes out $0.03 ahead, and you're making a cool $0.20 profit!! (Minus gas, food, and lodging.)
I think it's accurate to say that most people on this planet, with the exception of Canadians, some Americans, and tourists to Canada, don't even know Ottawa exists.
Mandrake or Debian.
Yah I don't know what prices the original poster was looking at, but broadband prices in Canada are comparable to what is the US and often cheaper. In Ontario I pay $45 for cable internet with speeds often aproaching 3Mb/sec. That's about $35 US, and that's about the normal price across Canada, unless you live in the bush.
you may want everything on a plate, do a little work.
So in other words you're saying "It's not up to me to show the evidence, it's up to you!" I see SCO's tactics have rubbed off on someone.
I don't know, maybe Grisoft's retail version may be good, but about a year ago I downloaded about a dozen viruses just to see how well the free AVG Antivirus version, McAfee, & Norton detect them. Although far from an exaustive test, AVG missed about a third of the viruses, but Mcafee & Norton caught every one.
Free is good, but sometimes you do get what you pay for.
I think that's some of what the original poster was implying. So many people are disgusted with the state of pop, top-40, "make a catchy single and grab as many sales as we can", and "copy the lastest hit band" music that they are either tuning out or turning to alternatives, and either case these alternatives don't register on the music industry's sales charts.
The movies lack the gravity and emotion of the books
Well DUH! Show me a movie that does. You can't take 1000+ pages of events that span months and compress them into 9 hours without losing something.
This has nothing to do with POP-Thunderbird/Mozilla itself is creating a separate set of folders for each account instead of downloading mail from all POP servers into a common Inbox, which is what every other email app (Eudora, Outlook, Pegasus Mail, KMail,etc) on this planet does.
Thunderbirds' method is akin to requiring a separate postal mailbox for each unique sender of snailmail.
It's not like they have to wait two weeks to find out who has won. Results are counted within a couple of hours after polls close. Hardly what I would call an excessive amount of time.
You have the weasliest response to meaningless polls.
"Microsoft argues that increased integration will cut down ongoing costs, maintenance and what not, but whether that will be the case has yet to be seen...
Yeah, like how integration of IE into windows OS has cut down on maintenance costs.
You're making a funny, right? Only if the open source software is free. And then the purchase price of software is only one factor in the ultimate price-there is support, IT, training, hardware. After you consider all the costs then purchase price probably is one of the smaller costs.
Well if you just go by names they are all different, kinda like the Toyota Matrix and Pontiac Vibe.
And I'm sure Skywalker is with them!
A day ago I received patent 6,606,659: The act of pressing the three keys Ctrl, Alt, & Delete on a keyboard simultaneously to achieve a desired effect.
:)
I believe your patent infringes on my patent so you must get permission to use those keys. In fact earlier I was issued patent 6,606,658, a patent that patents patent infringement. I will be expecting two big cheques.
If you ask for it, it's not fraud.
But they are not asking for it, SCO is. SCO is saying pay up or else, and he's just reacting to SCO's statements. It's not like linux users have been screaming for binary only licences all these years and SCO is finally providing the service.
And how many times can they get away with the marketing claim that "You need to buy our new OS because frankly our old OS sucks!" before consumers catch on?
Hmmm...let's see:
Win3.1->win95
win95->win98
win98->win98se
win98se->winme
winnt4->win2k
win->winxp
So far 6 times!
They're getting more attention and anger transferred to them from virus writers because they're the biggest company in the industry.
That statement is definitely correct, but even if windows can be setup to provide the same level of security as linux, the fact that MS is being targeted to a much higher degree than linux makes MS systems much more vulnerable.
When did the IBM S/360 appear?
Hasn't the abacus been around since the middle ages?
Sorry, I couldn't resist.
Ah, someone with a similar experience. I always seem to get tempted by the 'Mozilla is bloated and slow, Firebird is lightning fast' posts so I check out Firebird every few months but it never gives me any compelling reason to switch from Mozilla. Maybe on a PII or PIII machine Firebird may be faster, but with a 2GHz with 1GB ram the speed differences are imperceptible.
Yet, I haven't tried Firebird in linux for a while so I may give it another shot.