Commercial vendors would love for customers to consider only the sticker price without taking into account the many hidden and recurring costs in most commercial software solutions.
You have that backwards. If customers only considered the sticker price OSS would always win: it's free. The argument of the commercial vendors is that OSS costs more to maintain in the long run. You know; the "only if your time is worth nothing" argument.
I approach the end of my own long run believing more strongly than ever that the quality of journalism and the quality of democracy are inextricably joined.
That's the whole idea behind the First Amendment isn't it?
I hear you brother. I hate waiting in line at the bank. So instead of getting my cash from the bank I just steal it from old ladies. Works great and saves me TIME!
I'm sure this is quite cut and dry to users of Linux but to laymen like myself and the judge in this case SCO has enough to go forward. That doesn't mean they'll win but I'd personally like to hear more. In every history of Linux I've read including The Cathedral and the Bazaar it's been explained to me that Linux came out of Unix. That alone leads me to believe that there is some Unix source in the Linux kernel. Please do not mod me down; I'm simply trying to answer the parent's question by explaining it from an outsider's view.
When I installed SP2 it specifically told me that Zonealarm was running and that I should shut it down if I wanted to use the Windows firewall because it would create problems. Try reading the messages before clicking 'Next'.
So GL claims that the SEs are what he really wanted to release originally but couldn't because he was limited by budgets and technology? So am I to also understand that Greedo was supposed to shoot first originally but the budget and technology only allowed for Han shooting first?
There are way too many people on earth for it to be a self-sustaining, pollution-free paradise.
Horseshit. You're talking out of your ASS! Your kind of junk science is straight from the UN. Texas alone is 268 601 square miles which equals 6.95673396 × 10^11 square meters or nearly 700 000 000 000 square meters. The current population of the Earth is estimated at around 5.5 billion. That means you could fit every man, woman and child on earth in Texas while giving EACH of them 127.272727 square meters of land. My point being, we're nowhere NEAR the total human carrying capacity of this planet. There's plenty of space, food, and water. The only problems are in distribution. Shout outs to Google Calculator.
Where in that article does it say the park advocates leaving your children unattended? All I read was that the system will help reunite you with your children if they are separated from you. You've gone off on a tangent of your own creation. You're out to lunch.
Hope not because Firefox makes it extremely difficult to upgrade if you want to keep your extensions. Hmmm, security or TabbedBrowser Preferences. Hard to choose really.
I'd be very surprised to learn that movies are still distributed on a physical format in 10 years. Once all media is distributed over networks you won't have to worry about distributors and studios. If the movie is made it'll reach the public somehow.
It's going to be tough for anyone to take away Google's share of the search engine market.
Tough but not impossible. Remember when you thought the same about Altavista? Yahoo!? Hotbot? Webcrawler? etc. etc. Do you seriously think that Google is the last word in search engines? I'm not saying that A9 is The One but I've been on the web long enough to know that Google will be replaced one day. As it stands now, it'll most likely be Microsoft's offering.
Which is exactly why Google fought to keep itself out of the dictionary. Once googling becomes a generic term that means "to perform a web search" your friend will not have to say that he A9d for it. He'll say that he googled for it despite the fact that he used a different engine. I'd say we're almost at that point now.
My house isn't big enough for a console collection.
I've heard this argument before and what I want to know is what house in the world can't handle one extra console? Are you living on the ISS or in a coffin motel or something? I've got my NES, SNES, DC, GC, a DVD player and VCR under my TV and I could easily fit another box or two. It's just a crazy argument.
Simple as that. Adblock doesn't block shite and it leaves huge ugly blank boxes on the screen where ads used to be. I was sick of having to right click on every ad that Adblock missed to block all images from a given server only to have it let the ads through again on a refresh.
Install Admuncher for IE and you can configure it right down to whether or not the cow in the system tray is wearing shades or not. It blocks Google text ads, popups, banners, background music, and everything else with ease. And it replaces them not with large white squares but with nothing. You can't even guess where the ads used to be.
This means little to most slashdotters. We dont use Yahoo, we all switched to google ages ago.
Why do people still consider Yahoo! a search engine when it's clearly a web portal and a popular one at that. Can you play Fantasy Football at Google.com? Can you play chess online? Can you watch trailers, listen to music, shop, check your calendar...etc. etc. Google is a great search engine but that's all it is. Yahoo! is a web portal that features a search engine. They're not even in the same game as Google.
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I think you'll agree that that when it comes to the Internet and computing people are looking for more laws and more regulation.
There's no such thing as a coder who can't problem solve. That's what coding is.
You have that backwards. If customers only considered the sticker price OSS would always win: it's free. The argument of the commercial vendors is that OSS costs more to maintain in the long run. You know; the "only if your time is worth nothing" argument.
That's the whole idea behind the First Amendment isn't it?
I hear you brother. I hate waiting in line at the bank. So instead of getting my cash from the bank I just steal it from old ladies. Works great and saves me TIME!
I'm sure this is quite cut and dry to users of Linux but to laymen like myself and the judge in this case SCO has enough to go forward. That doesn't mean they'll win but I'd personally like to hear more. In every history of Linux I've read including The Cathedral and the Bazaar it's been explained to me that Linux came out of Unix. That alone leads me to believe that there is some Unix source in the Linux kernel. Please do not mod me down; I'm simply trying to answer the parent's question by explaining it from an outsider's view.
When I installed SP2 it specifically told me that Zonealarm was running and that I should shut it down if I wanted to use the Windows firewall because it would create problems. Try reading the messages before clicking 'Next'.
No, they're not. Not sure if you've heard about Linux.
So GL claims that the SEs are what he really wanted to release originally but couldn't because he was limited by budgets and technology? So am I to also understand that Greedo was supposed to shoot first originally but the budget and technology only allowed for Han shooting first?
Calling them Otaku gives them an undeserved cachet. I prefer to call them Anime nerds.
Horseshit. You're talking out of your ASS! Your kind of junk science is straight from the UN. Texas alone is 268 601 square miles which equals 6.95673396 × 10^11 square meters or nearly 700 000 000 000 square meters. The current population of the Earth is estimated at around 5.5 billion. That means you could fit every man, woman and child on earth in Texas while giving EACH of them 127.272727 square meters of land. My point being, we're nowhere NEAR the total human carrying capacity of this planet. There's plenty of space, food, and water. The only problems are in distribution. Shout outs to Google Calculator.
I fucking hate games like that. Games that are so hard you throw the controller through the window isn't what I'm looking for.
Where in that article does it say the park advocates leaving your children unattended? All I read was that the system will help reunite you with your children if they are separated from you. You've gone off on a tangent of your own creation. You're out to lunch.
I think you meant "Training our kids to be soldiers."
Anecdotes mean jack shit. Testimonials are quite useful.
Your teacher was a chipmunk? I think you meant Chippendale. lol.
Microsoft's?
Hope not because Firefox makes it extremely difficult to upgrade if you want to keep your extensions. Hmmm, security or TabbedBrowser Preferences. Hard to choose really.
I'd be very surprised to learn that movies are still distributed on a physical format in 10 years. Once all media is distributed over networks you won't have to worry about distributors and studios. If the movie is made it'll reach the public somehow.
Tough but not impossible. Remember when you thought the same about Altavista? Yahoo!? Hotbot? Webcrawler? etc. etc. Do you seriously think that Google is the last word in search engines? I'm not saying that A9 is The One but I've been on the web long enough to know that Google will be replaced one day. As it stands now, it'll most likely be Microsoft's offering.
Which is exactly why Google fought to keep itself out of the dictionary. Once googling becomes a generic term that means "to perform a web search" your friend will not have to say that he A9d for it. He'll say that he googled for it despite the fact that he used a different engine. I'd say we're almost at that point now.
I've heard this argument before and what I want to know is what house in the world can't handle one extra console? Are you living on the ISS or in a coffin motel or something? I've got my NES, SNES, DC, GC, a DVD player and VCR under my TV and I could easily fit another box or two. It's just a crazy argument.
Simple as that. Adblock doesn't block shite and it leaves huge ugly blank boxes on the screen where ads used to be. I was sick of having to right click on every ad that Adblock missed to block all images from a given server only to have it let the ads through again on a refresh.
Install Admuncher for IE and you can configure it right down to whether or not the cow in the system tray is wearing shades or not. It blocks Google text ads, popups, banners, background music, and everything else with ease. And it replaces them not with large white squares but with nothing. You can't even guess where the ads used to be.
Why do people still consider Yahoo! a search engine when it's clearly a web portal and a popular one at that. Can you play Fantasy Football at Google.com? Can you play chess online? Can you watch trailers, listen to music, shop, check your calendar...etc. etc. Google is a great search engine but that's all it is. Yahoo! is a web portal that features a search engine. They're not even in the same game as Google.
Mod parent up and shut down the rest of the thread. This is just skydiving inside of a box instead of with a chute.