"a script from an unaired episode with an hour of special effects, gratuitous sex and fight scenes added" That sounds like the plot to every movie I've seen in the last 10 years. It'll break all records, no doubt.
"This price reduction has to impact their bottom line"
Not by much, the artists will loose, the record store will loose, the song writers will loose, I bet Simon Cowell & co will still be able to afford to have designer slacks that reach his nipples, whilst the poor current struggling artists can only stretch to pants that just about cover their pubic area.
The aricle may be overstating the case, but it does make it sound as though MS products are displacing others at a disturbing rate in computer science departments.
No surprise that there is so much outsourcing to India and former Eastern Bloc countries then.
Doesn't everyone? You buy stuff off people you don't trust do you? If companies have to tell you they're honest they usally arn't. Take "Honest Joe's Software Co", if there stuff was good they'd just call it "Joe's Software Co".
Does the use of '5 year old boy' as opposed to '5 year old girl' make anyone
else a little uneasy? Actually thinking about it neither is particularly suited
to the hotbed of hormones that is slashdot. Why not say 'equivalent to an
average windows user'?
I've never been able to see the whole board on GNUChess, whatever resolution the last half inch always seems to disappear off the desktop, s'pose I should rtfm.
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WRDOS SBRCALME YOU!
So you're in support of the senseless software upgrade spiral that is killing commerce.
So, what percentage of MS Office users have the same version?
.....and documents can only be read on the latest hardware. Yup, I can see all prudent businesses throwing cash at that one.
Won't handle macro viruses don't you mean?
No, the fact that you can alter it to suit your own needs does. Nice troll you got me.
"Politicians in India have called on its vast army of programmers to develop open-source products for the same reasons."
All you MS developers are safe now. There'll be no outsourcing there any more.
"SCO also wants customers to be aware that the license is a binary, run-time-only license"
I'm sorry but having to search the web for vb300.dll or whatever was so 1990's.
The way I read it was that it wasn't available for any platforms except windows.
As the Microsoft user base dwindles it will be important to keep a well trained core of people who can administer these legacy systems.
He appears to favour a Red Hat.
Much wasted effort, probably to be repeated at least annually, could be avoided by insisting that students upgrade to a more secure operating system.
"a script from an unaired episode with an hour of special effects, gratuitous sex and fight scenes added"
That sounds like the plot to every movie I've seen in the last 10 years. It'll break all records, no doubt.
"This price reduction has to impact their bottom line"
Not by much, the artists will loose, the record store will loose, the song writers will loose, I bet Simon Cowell & co will still be able to afford to have designer slacks that reach his nipples, whilst the poor current struggling artists can only stretch to pants that just about cover their pubic area.
The aricle may be overstating the case, but it does make it sound as though MS products are displacing others at a disturbing rate in computer science departments.
No surprise that there is so much outsourcing to India and former Eastern Bloc countries then.
who exactly is buying "Trusted Computing"
Doesn't everyone? You buy stuff off people you don't trust do you? If companies have to tell you they're honest they usally arn't. Take "Honest Joe's Software Co", if there stuff was good they'd just call it "Joe's Software Co".
Does the use of '5 year old boy' as opposed to '5 year old girl' make anyone else a little uneasy? Actually thinking about it neither is particularly suited to the hotbed of hormones that is slashdot. Why not say 'equivalent to an average windows user'?
I've never been able to see the whole board on GNUChess, whatever resolution the last half inch always seems to disappear off the desktop, s'pose I should rtfm.
Especially on March 15th.
"to send your children to college" and "to buy a second home"
My second home covers 43 acres in Alaska, my kids eat the same shit as me. But I'm willing to pay Darth $699 to leave me the fuck alone.
You have to give it to the guy; his timing is impeccable...
Timing being the essence of comedy........
"Actually you only have to pay the fee if you run it on Linux"
I tried it with wine but no luck, I've sent a bugzilla report.
"All Kaspersky Labs products effectively detect both modifications of "Lovesan", without requiring an update."
Guess they were just damned lucky there.
"It has no legal support."
Things only need legal support if they are inherently without the law on their side.
Or alternatively they could have just written a backend which could be accessed by GTK or Qt or perl, php, etch-a-sketch or whatever.