I agree with you. People are simply not willing to pay computer repairmen what they currently pay automobile repairmen. It sort of makes sense. Most (l)users can live without a computer. Most people could not easily live without a car.
Settle down. Let's not get crazy here that we'll eventually regret. How about we compromise. I'll take the tickets to The Pacifier, but I get my social security number back?
Tickets for The Pacifier was NOT part of the deal. You promised me advanced tickets to Revenge of the Sith damnit! If I don't get those tickets soon, I swear I'll change my password!
Exactly, the outrageous profit margins Microsoft makes will allow it to make outrageous price concessions if a competitor ever does arise on the desktop.
But the problem for Microsoft is that it's basically a house of cards. Every other facet of Microsoft loses money other than Office and Windows. If either of those fail, the entire company would fail with it. That's why it is so desperate to do something different, e.g., Xbox, WebTV, WinCE, search, Windows Media Video 9/HD-DVD, etc. Thus, if Microsoft was forced to lower prices on Office/Windows, they'd have to start dumping all of their money losing areas to stay afloat.
When I look at Microsoft that way, I think of the first Predator movie, with the well armed troops, shooting around at random, and hitting nothing.
The people at Microsoft aren't stupid. They completely understand open source. But, they also understand the value of a closed proprietary system. Microsoft earns 80% profit margins on Office and Windows. When Red Hat earns that kind of profit, then Microsoft might switch.
The irony is that the Play for Sure system does NOT mean that the songs download from Play for Sure sellers will work in Play for Sure players. Play for Sure is pure marketing BS. Check out this informative article from Freedom to Tinker.
Wait a minute, IS there a Dr. Who movie about to be released?! I think I'm confusing Dr. Who with a Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe. Damn brits and your high quality sci-fi!
Slang is a variant of a dominate language. It's quite possible for two people to speak the exact same language and not understand each other because they are speaking different dialects/slang.
When those dialects became dominate forking occurs.
It happened with Latin. Italian, Spanish, and French are all dialects of Latin which have became their own dominate languages. The same will almost certainly happen to English.
I agree with you. Barring a disaster of earthly proportions, English can never really be destroyed. It'll simply keep modifying and users will simply keep adjusting.
For example, as an American I have trouble understanding the "English" dialog in a movie such as "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels." While I'm sure the same is true of an English person watching a US gangsta film.
Think of English as an open source language as no one really dictates over it. We're free to use it however we like. It may fork, it will fork, but it'll never die.
Are you kidding?! Once AI is created, Jeff Hawkins will take over the world and rule as our supreme overlord. At that time "proft" will become as meaningless as "justice" or "freedom."
That is, until the AI gets intelligent enough to kill him. That's when the REAL fun will begin.
The money behind the X-Prize wasn't the goal. Everyone in it simply wanted to be the first person in space not launched by a government. We all accept that'd be cool.
The money behind the X-Prize wasn't the goal. Everyone in it simply wanted to be the first person in space not launched by a government. We all accept that'd be cool.
But somehow I don't see designing a tether as being quite as exciting, in and of itself.
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I agree with you. People are simply not willing to pay computer repairmen what they currently pay automobile repairmen. It sort of makes sense. Most (l)users can live without a computer. Most people could not easily live without a car.
Settle down. Let's not get crazy here that we'll eventually regret. How about we compromise. I'll take the tickets to The Pacifier, but I get my social security number back?
Tickets for The Pacifier was NOT part of the deal. You promised me advanced tickets to Revenge of the Sith damnit! If I don't get those tickets soon, I swear I'll change my password!
Exactly, the outrageous profit margins Microsoft makes will allow it to make outrageous price concessions if a competitor ever does arise on the desktop.
But the problem for Microsoft is that it's basically a house of cards. Every other facet of Microsoft loses money other than Office and Windows. If either of those fail, the entire company would fail with it. That's why it is so desperate to do something different, e.g., Xbox, WebTV, WinCE, search, Windows Media Video 9/HD-DVD, etc. Thus, if Microsoft was forced to lower prices on Office/Windows, they'd have to start dumping all of their money losing areas to stay afloat.
When I look at Microsoft that way, I think of the first Predator movie, with the well armed troops, shooting around at random, and hitting nothing.
The people at Microsoft aren't stupid. They completely understand open source. But, they also understand the value of a closed proprietary system. Microsoft earns 80% profit margins on Office and Windows. When Red Hat earns that kind of profit, then Microsoft might switch.
The irony is that the Play for Sure system does NOT mean that the songs download from Play for Sure sellers will work in Play for Sure players. Play for Sure is pure marketing BS. Check out this informative article from Freedom to Tinker.
Sorry, but the brontoburger already exists!
... for a second I thought I clicked on the "Slashdot Story Generator" by mistake!
Damn, I should have stayed in bed!
Wait a minute, IS there a Dr. Who movie about to be released?! I think I'm confusing Dr. Who with a Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe. Damn brits and your high quality sci-fi!
Because the Dr. Who movie is about the be released. That's what the hype was about.
Slang is a variant of a dominate language. It's quite possible for two people to speak the exact same language and not understand each other because they are speaking different dialects/slang.
When those dialects became dominate forking occurs.
It happened with Latin. Italian, Spanish, and French are all dialects of Latin which have became their own dominate languages. The same will almost certainly happen to English.
I agree with you. Barring a disaster of earthly proportions, English can never really be destroyed. It'll simply keep modifying and users will simply keep adjusting.
For example, as an American I have trouble understanding the "English" dialog in a movie such as "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels." While I'm sure the same is true of an English person watching a US gangsta film.
Think of English as an open source language as no one really dictates over it. We're free to use it however we like. It may fork, it will fork, but it'll never die.
It's all a part of Microsoft's grand plan.
Are you kidding?! Once AI is created, Jeff Hawkins will take over the world and rule as our supreme overlord. At that time "proft" will become as meaningless as "justice" or "freedom."
That is, until the AI gets intelligent enough to kill him. That's when the REAL fun will begin.
... that Dr. Otto Octavius is coming out of retirement to run the research department?
OSX is better. Windows only has memory leaks!
I don't know how in the fuck that line got repeated. Firefox error?! I wasn't trying to emphasize my point. Once was enough for that.
The money behind the X-Prize wasn't the goal. Everyone in it simply wanted to be the first person in space not launched by a government. We all accept that'd be cool.
The money behind the X-Prize wasn't the goal. Everyone in it simply wanted to be the first person in space not launched by a government. We all accept that'd be cool.
But somehow I don't see designing a tether as being quite as exciting, in and of itself.
Yeah, I agree. I don't get it either. It'd be like showing shirts only to those who already bought the shirt.
I thought the point of having the images of text on Amazon was so that those who didn't have the book could check some of it out BEFORE buying.
Then again, maybe I should have read the article before posting.
No, after getting rid of France there'd be nothing left to do.
Does NASA realise you can make that kind of money by simply working?!
No, "My Butt Wiper" would be the name on the icon linked to where we'd store our used toilet paper.
The EU wanted Microsoft to remove all video players from Windows. Now the EU is complaining that video doesn't play.
Oh, I get it. You guys are simply fucking with Microsoft. Sort of like a kid pulling the wings off a fly. Funny stuff your bureaucrats do over there!
The first thing I'd do is point out to the world that the Internet is a web.
The second thing I'd do is point out that if you don't want your information linked on the web, simply don't put it on the web.
The last thing I'd do is wipe France clean off the earth. But that goes without saying.