Who in thier right mind could sit cramed into a tractor or whatever for 30 days? Let alone in the middle of frozen hell, I forsee maddness setting in around the 7th day of the trip. But for all its worth I guess the maddness already set in before they came up with this idea in the first place eh?
What they are used to in the epic history of the world is you pay for the product and then get support for it, this is just the opposite, you get the software for free and then if you have trouble pay for help. To me its an odd way to do business however, becuase you aren't guaranteed anything for your work unless someone can't figure it out, if a bunch of super geniuses got ahold of it you'd never get anywhere. Thats why I don't really see the whole rationalization behind the open source business...sure they like to say "Hey look, it's free!!!" but I'm so used to paying for things that I wouldn't mind paying for it upfront to include everything I need to get it working on my own...not to mention its almost impossible for me to acutally admit to another human being I can't figure it out on my own so I probably wouldn't even call them but rather pretend it never happened in the first place.
"The truth is that these are all very valid concerns. We don't want to get ourselves into a spiraling nightmare by using crappy software either. We created this section to help you make a more informed decision." But I guess its ok to release an open source program with crappy documentation knowing people will pay you to tell them how to get it working right eh? Theres nothing I hate more than a lack of documentation with software.
If they are cloning people now, I wanna go thaw out John Wayne and get me my very own dinosaur too..cause hell, if were gonna tamper with nature may as well make it worth our while...
Good point, RedHat is getting pretty damn bloated, and what really gets me is I have a hard time telling what all they even crammed into it...most of its really useless junk...
Kinda like the Linux On A Floppy (LOAF) projects that were going around a couple years ago. It can be done, just kinda cut down version, good for having a portable firewall and stuff, not a whole lot of options tho. Slackware had ZIPSlack out for Zip Disk booting, I never tried that one tho...
Remember when you could just go buy a cd and if it would fit in the player it would work. Now a persons gonna have to actually think about what cd their buying to make sure they can even listen to it, to me thats gonna hurt sales cause impulse buyers like me are going to not be so spontanious...
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Shut up jackass, what does that have to do with Tuxedo Park? Get outa here fore I get Jackie Chan on your ass
Yeah, they should call it the Ozzy Expressway lol
Who in thier right mind could sit cramed into a tractor or whatever for 30 days? Let alone in the middle of frozen hell, I forsee maddness setting in around the 7th day of the trip. But for all its worth I guess the maddness already set in before they came up with this idea in the first place eh?
Sexing penguins?!?! I'd like to see penguin porno...now thats entertainment!
Do you think you could call AAA if you hit a penguin and run off the road?
What they are used to in the epic history of the world is you pay for the product and then get support for it, this is just the opposite, you get the software for free and then if you have trouble pay for help. To me its an odd way to do business however, becuase you aren't guaranteed anything for your work unless someone can't figure it out, if a bunch of super geniuses got ahold of it you'd never get anywhere. Thats why I don't really see the whole rationalization behind the open source business...sure they like to say "Hey look, it's free!!!" but I'm so used to paying for things that I wouldn't mind paying for it upfront to include everything I need to get it working on my own...not to mention its almost impossible for me to acutally admit to another human being I can't figure it out on my own so I probably wouldn't even call them but rather pretend it never happened in the first place.
Well, they could start by making the product good enough that people would want to pay money for it in the first place...
"The truth is that these are all very valid concerns. We don't want to get ourselves into a spiraling nightmare by using crappy software either. We created this section to help you make a more informed decision."
But I guess its ok to release an open source program with crappy documentation knowing people will pay you to tell them how to get it working right eh? Theres nothing I hate more than a lack of documentation with software.
If they are cloning people now, I wanna go thaw out John Wayne and get me my very own dinosaur too..cause hell, if were gonna tamper with nature may as well make it worth our while...
Good point, RedHat is getting pretty damn bloated, and what really gets me is I have a hard time telling what all they even crammed into it...most of its really useless junk...
Kinda like the Linux On A Floppy (LOAF) projects that were going around a couple years ago. It can be done, just kinda cut down version, good for having a portable firewall and stuff, not a whole lot of options tho. Slackware had ZIPSlack out for Zip Disk booting, I never tried that one tho...
It's made by Microsoft, what else is there to say?
I agree, none of the switches, routers, or dialup equipment I deal with daily are USB enabled, good ole serial ports wanting plugged into my laptop.
Ahh, Willis don't have to worry about the DMCA, he'd just blow them up with the asteroid.
Well...the early CD days were the good old days for me...I mean hell I'm only 21 I never owned an 8 track lol
Remember when you could just go buy a cd and if it would fit in the player it would work. Now a persons gonna have to actually think about what cd their buying to make sure they can even listen to it, to me thats gonna hurt sales cause impulse buyers like me are going to not be so spontanious...