Your shortsighted perspective ignores the R&D costs that go into developing the software that goes onto those CDs.
Give me a break. They recoup their R&D before the day is out, the day they release the software. If you haven't noticed, Microsoft has huge cash reserves. The reason they do is because it costs hundreds of dollars for a 2 cent CD. I'm not trying to dispute R&D costs but when you sell something that only costs 2 cents to duplicate for hundreds of dollars, that's a huge profit margin. Once R&D costs are paid off almost 100% of the rest of the sales are pure profit.
I would be glad if the US government went after MS. I'm also happy that the EU decision doesn't affect the US though because I would hate to see MS charging for an implementation of their protocols. There goes samba, OO.org, and reading/writing to the FAT file system.
It is? Then how are we supposed to differentiate Asians (people from China, Japan, Vietnam, that area) from Asians (people from the Indian subcontinent) and Asians (people from $(foo)stan)?
Easily. First you can call them people. Then if that doesn't work you can call them Japanese or Chinese or whatever their country of origin is, if you feel it is necessary to differentiate people. "Oriental" is very demeaning. It is a western word that infers delicacy and fragility. People of Asian descent despise the term "Oriental".
*sigh* There's a reason I qualified my statement with "at least recently", because recently GNU has accepted a lot of projects that are either vapor, or will never reach the 1.0 stage
I guess you shouldn't have contradicted yourself then when you said "track record". That indicates a long term fuck up. GNU has a good track record. That's all I'm saying. They may have some problems now but their track record is very good.
And don't forget this. Never forget this! GNU still hasn't put out a reliable kernel for their OS, which is why it's GNU/Linux, rather than just plain "GNU". How long has it been in development?
True, but it's a microkernel, which is not exaclty a simple architecture. I suppose this might be one area where a simple community of developers is just not enough. You need computer scientists and experienced programmers to create a microkernel.
I use distcc and sometimes it doesn't seem to help because I try to offload my compiles to my two slower computers first because I would rather keep my laptop cpu cooler. The problem is that sometimes it will actually take longer to compile. After reading about unsermake I really want to use it because, I think automake is my bottleneck. The question is how do you do it? Where can I find unsermake and how do I configure distcc to use it? The article is great on explaining what to change but not how to change it.
And GNU, at least lately, doesn't have the greatest track record of reliable non-vapor software past the 1.0 stage...
What are you referring to? Without GNU there wouldn't be GCC, the GPL, or GNU/Linux. I trust them to build complete, professional software more than I trust most other open source projects, and most commercial operations too.
Your comment is idiotic at best. You chastise the poster for saying "rich white men" then you go on to call asians "orientals". I do hope you know that that term is demeaning.
Record sales are actually up. They have been going up for years. The record companies just like to bitch and whine about losing money but they're just bald-faced liars.
Thx. I haven't used it yet. I was just wondering. I still have 1.2.5
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Sure, you can move GIMP to a seperate desktop, but there are numerous reasons that people may not want to do so. For example, new users won't know how
C'mon. How hard is it too click on the little box in your toolbar? Considering most newbie's would be using KDE or GNOME, that's about the only thing you have to do to switch workspaces in those environments.
The high pricepoint of Windows & Unix really prevented developing companies from deploying large numbers of personal computers.
Nice try slick. Windows is pirated all over the world. Check the statistics, it's still much more commonly used in India than Linux is. I suppose you wouldn't want to reverse your opinion and blame it on Microsoft now would you?
Schools have an english class for a reason. If we all just chose to speak however the hell we wanted to then language would evolve at such a rapid pace that I wouldn't have a clue what anyone was saying on the other side of my own country.
It's only now a word because people don't know how to speak. It was DEFINITELY not a word to describe mroe than one species of fish. It became that way through misuse.
LMAO, of course it's not Bill's $50B. The stockholders probably don't care about spaceracing, they want a return on their investment. Bill is under legal obligation to earn money for them.
But he doesn't. That's the problem. When you invest in a company it is so that they can grow and you can get a return on that investment. Instead MS just sits on its cash. They didn't even start giving out dividends until recently and when they did it was chump change.
Unfortunately donations of his OS count towards his charity. So if he gives a school 1000 windows CD's that's like a 10,000 dollar gift that cost him next to nothing, and actually makes him money in the end by locking the schools and the students in. The other problem is that he and MS have huge cash reserves, based mostly on, again, how cheap it is to make a CD, compared to how much they charge for it. Bill could give away several billion and not even feel it. That's not charity, that's PR. He probably makes more money after deductions anyway. If he ever starts actually distributing his enourmous wealth to the point that it actually affects his life, then that's real charity.
On a side note to that, I worked at a department store part time when I was in college and the handheld inventory devices displayed "SCO UnixWare" on startup and communicated via 802.11.
Red Hat is protecting themselves from possible lawsuits. It's a companies job to pretect themselves from legal issues. You don't seem to understand that.
programmers who clamor for open source, open documentation, free this, free that, and then bitch that some bright Indian, Pole or Chinese "stole" their jobs.
Where is the connection between open source and outsourcing? Please enlighten me.
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Give me a break. They recoup their R&D before the day is out, the day they release the software. If you haven't noticed, Microsoft has huge cash reserves. The reason they do is because it costs hundreds of dollars for a 2 cent CD. I'm not trying to dispute R&D costs but when you sell something that only costs 2 cents to duplicate for hundreds of dollars, that's a huge profit margin. Once R&D costs are paid off almost 100% of the rest of the sales are pure profit.
I would be glad if the US government went after MS. I'm also happy that the EU decision doesn't affect the US though because I would hate to see MS charging for an implementation of their protocols. There goes samba, OO.org, and reading/writing to the FAT file system.
Easily. First you can call them people. Then if that doesn't work you can call them Japanese or Chinese or whatever their country of origin is, if you feel it is necessary to differentiate people. "Oriental" is very demeaning. It is a western word that infers delicacy and fragility. People of Asian descent despise the term "Oriental".
I guess you shouldn't have contradicted yourself then when you said "track record". That indicates a long term fuck up. GNU has a good track record. That's all I'm saying. They may have some problems now but their track record is very good.
And don't forget this. Never forget this! GNU still hasn't put out a reliable kernel for their OS, which is why it's GNU/Linux, rather than just plain "GNU". How long has it been in development?
True, but it's a microkernel, which is not exaclty a simple architecture. I suppose this might be one area where a simple community of developers is just not enough. You need computer scientists and experienced programmers to create a microkernel.
I'm a dumbass. The links are at the bottom of the page.
I use distcc and sometimes it doesn't seem to help because I try to offload my compiles to my two slower computers first because I would rather keep my laptop cpu cooler. The problem is that sometimes it will actually take longer to compile. After reading about unsermake I really want to use it because, I think automake is my bottleneck. The question is how do you do it? Where can I find unsermake and how do I configure distcc to use it? The article is great on explaining what to change but not how to change it.
arguable Where's the argument?
What are you referring to? Without GNU there wouldn't be GCC, the GPL, or GNU/Linux. I trust them to build complete, professional software more than I trust most other open source projects, and most commercial operations too.
Your comment is idiotic at best. You chastise the poster for saying "rich white men" then you go on to call asians "orientals". I do hope you know that that term is demeaning.
Record sales are actually up. They have been going up for years. The record companies just like to bitch and whine about losing money but they're just bald-faced liars.
Thx. I haven't used it yet. I was just wondering. I still have 1.2.5
C'mon. How hard is it too click on the little box in your toolbar? Considering most newbie's would be using KDE or GNOME, that's about the only thing you have to do to switch workspaces in those environments.
Nice try slick. Windows is pirated all over the world. Check the statistics, it's still much more commonly used in India than Linux is. I suppose you wouldn't want to reverse your opinion and blame it on Microsoft now would you?
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Schools have an english class for a reason. If we all just chose to speak however the hell we wanted to then language would evolve at such a rapid pace that I wouldn't have a clue what anyone was saying on the other side of my own country.
It's only now a word because people don't know how to speak. It was DEFINITELY not a word to describe mroe than one species of fish. It became that way through misuse.
Wow, you totally missed the point of my point.
For once us Americans can say thank god EU courts don't affect us, instead of hearing it the other way around on slashdot all the time.
But he doesn't. That's the problem. When you invest in a company it is so that they can grow and you can get a return on that investment. Instead MS just sits on its cash. They didn't even start giving out dividends until recently and when they did it was chump change.
Unfortunately donations of his OS count towards his charity. So if he gives a school 1000 windows CD's that's like a 10,000 dollar gift that cost him next to nothing, and actually makes him money in the end by locking the schools and the students in. The other problem is that he and MS have huge cash reserves, based mostly on, again, how cheap it is to make a CD, compared to how much they charge for it. Bill could give away several billion and not even feel it. That's not charity, that's PR. He probably makes more money after deductions anyway. If he ever starts actually distributing his enourmous wealth to the point that it actually affects his life, then that's real charity.
True, but I bet Microsoft has the biggest profit margin. Honestly how much does it cost to press a CD these days?
Do you even know what a hippie is?
On a side note to that, I worked at a department store part time when I was in college and the handheld inventory devices displayed "SCO UnixWare" on startup and communicated via 802.11.
Red Hat is protecting themselves from possible lawsuits. It's a companies job to pretect themselves from legal issues. You don't seem to understand that.
Where is the connection between open source and outsourcing? Please enlighten me.