"People don't want to buy your crippled software, even if it cheap"
Well, the logic is simple: People have been buying their expensive crippled software for decades. Therefore their cheap crippled software should sell even better...
So what is so difficult about providing a 25c CD with the product? Every place I have worked with that use GPL software does that. Every device you buy from Taiwan/China has some disc in the packaging that the user has to throw away...
I think it is a scale problem: What appears small to an American, eg. just a little war on a little country on the other side of the globe, is a very large matter to everybody else, living in a typical small country.
Also, the US is especially fond of picking on very small countries: Haiti, Panama, Granada, Iraq, etc. Consequently, the rest of the world, which by the way represents many more people than the US, consequently tends to view the US as a typical school yard bully.
The guy on top of the elephant has a very different perspective from the guy running in front of the elephant...;-)
I take it that you are American and blissfully unaware of how your country behaves outside its borders. The US cannot turn into a Fascist state, since it already is one - has been for a long time. This is very obvious to people outside the US. The people on the inside are so indoctrinated that they don't know what they are missing.
Over their history, the US, Cuba, Spain and East Germany had one thing in common - lots of people tried to escape at one point or another in time...
I'm not just trying to be full of shit - you should wake up and read/listen/watch news from other countries too, not just CNN/ABC.
Consider that for $30,000, you can buy 15,000 gallons of fuel which will allow you to drive your beater 300,000 miles at 20 mpg!
You could also buy another beater every year for $2000 and sell the old one for $1000 (instead of trying to maintain the beater with parts from a scrap yard) and still come out way ahead. These simple numbers explain why everybody on the poor side of town drive old cars - it costs much, much, much less than running a new car.
BTW, a British gallon (4.5l) is a lot larger than an American gallon (3.5l), so you may suffer from a conversion problem, but even so, a Mini probably still outruns an Accord hybrid on a litre of juice.
Also bear in mind that Europeans used to use larger gallons than Americans, so be careful when you do mental conversions from litres to gallons in these discussions.
"hybrids are far better than the other cars on the road"
The problem is that they are not. They cost more and a diesel gets better mileage. You are kidding yourself if you think that a hybrid is even a temporary answer. Gasoline Hybrids are merely expensive experiments. Diesel Hybrids may make a little more sense, but won't be sufficiently better than a simple diesel to make economic sense.
Anyhoo - oil isn't going to run out any time soon - there is enough carbonaceous schtuff to make gasoline and diesel from, to last 100s of years. The oxygen will probably run out before the carbon runs out...
So get a beater - for $2000 you can get a pretty decent beater and you can drive one heck of a long distance on $30,000 worth of gasoline, even if it gets only 20mpg and uses an equal amount of oil...
"Traveling in a fried-out combie On a hippie trail, head full of zombie"
So, killing innocent cows and sheep for meat, glue and leather at point blank distance while captive is somehow OK, but hunting isn't?
We got to live, we are omnivores and eat meat - life isn't fair - get over it.
Yes, yes, but why doesn't Safari ask the same way FF does? In Windows, Exploder will drop the zip file on the desktop - we expect Windows to do stupid things like that, but Safari should not.
Hmm, a few weeks ago, somebody phoned and asked whether I can send mass mail for him. I commented that I can send the mail alright, but I am pretty sure that it won't get through my mass mail filters. It took him a little while to understand...
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No, fortunately Clinton wasn't a nuclear scientist, so the word 'the' still has its traditional meaning...
Nevermind Google - where is the SCO joke???
How do you turn a nuclear battery off?
I assume that the nuclear decay process will go on till the battery has run down, but what happens if you don't use all of the current?
The decay energy has to be dumped somehow. Therefore, does the battery get hot when it is not in use and cold when it is?
Hey, my main backup system is a K6II with 4 disk drives, running Linux kernel 2.6. It does rsync all night long...
"People don't want to buy your crippled software, even if it cheap"
Well, the logic is simple: People have been buying their expensive crippled software for decades. Therefore their cheap crippled software should sell even better...
Razor, Razor2, Pyzor, DCC...
So what is so difficult about providing a 25c CD with the product? Every place I have worked with that use GPL software does that. Every device you buy from Taiwan/China has some disc in the packaging that the user has to throw away...
I think it is a scale problem: What appears small to an American, eg. just a little war on a little country on the other side of the globe, is a very large matter to everybody else, living in a typical small country.
;-)
Also, the US is especially fond of picking on very small countries: Haiti, Panama, Granada, Iraq, etc. Consequently, the rest of the world, which by the way represents many more people than the US, consequently tends to view the US as a typical school yard bully.
The guy on top of the elephant has a very different perspective from the guy running in front of the elephant...
"...the US hasn't turned into a facist state..."
I take it that you are American and blissfully unaware of how your country behaves outside its borders. The US cannot turn into a Fascist state, since it already is one - has been for a long time. This is very obvious to people outside the US. The people on the inside are so indoctrinated that they don't know what they are missing.
Over their history, the US, Cuba, Spain and East Germany had one thing in common - lots of people tried to escape at one point or another in time...
I'm not just trying to be full of shit - you should wake up and read/listen/watch news from other countries too, not just CNN/ABC.
Well, Darl is still at SCO and Laura Dildo will still write about him, so there will still be things to laugh about.
"9am-5pm Mon-Fri"
Well, since only 1% of Brits actually are working, those hours work perfectly for the 99% of the population that are on the dole...
Consider that for $30,000, you can buy 15,000 gallons of fuel which will allow you to drive your beater 300,000 miles at 20 mpg!
You could also buy another beater every year for $2000 and sell the old one for $1000 (instead of trying to maintain the beater with parts from a scrap yard) and still come out way ahead. These simple numbers explain why everybody on the poor side of town drive old cars - it costs much, much, much less than running a new car.
The best car, is a Paid For car. ;-)
BTW, a British gallon (4.5l) is a lot larger than an American gallon (3.5l), so you may suffer from a conversion problem, but even so, a Mini probably still outruns an Accord hybrid on a litre of juice.
Also bear in mind that Europeans used to use larger gallons than Americans, so be careful when you do mental conversions from litres to gallons in these discussions.
"hybrids are far better than the other cars on the road" The problem is that they are not. They cost more and a diesel gets better mileage. You are kidding yourself if you think that a hybrid is even a temporary answer. Gasoline Hybrids are merely expensive experiments. Diesel Hybrids may make a little more sense, but won't be sufficiently better than a simple diesel to make economic sense. Anyhoo - oil isn't going to run out any time soon - there is enough carbonaceous schtuff to make gasoline and diesel from, to last 100s of years. The oxygen will probably run out before the carbon runs out...
So get a beater - for $2000 you can get a pretty decent beater and you can drive one heck of a long distance on $30,000 worth of gasoline, even if it gets only 20mpg and uses an equal amount of oil...
"Traveling in a fried-out combie
On a hippie trail, head full of zombie"
That will keep everyone happy and then Symantec can market yet another tool to protect users against the Grammar Police and Miss Grundy...
Uhh, if it comes to staying profitable, they could always just write a few viruses...
So, killing innocent cows and sheep for meat, glue and leather at point blank distance while captive is somehow OK, but hunting isn't? We got to live, we are omnivores and eat meat - life isn't fair - get over it.
At last, a really witty, funny comment. Not many of these on Sloshdat.
...not to mention the cryptic Morse code flashed on the keyboard lights when there is a kernel panic... ;-)
Yes, yes, but why doesn't Safari ask the same way FF does? In Windows, Exploder will drop the zip file on the desktop - we expect Windows to do stupid things like that, but Safari should not.
with somethingorother.zip. Interesting, but not dangerous.
Hmm, a few weeks ago, somebody phoned and asked whether I can send mass mail for him. I commented that I can send the mail alright, but I am pretty sure that it won't get through my mass mail filters. It took him a little while to understand...