Some companies share their source code but only with customers, or share the source to anyone but demand paid licenses for commercial use. OpenMFG is one. There's also typically a guarantee that the product would become fully open source if abandoned.
My experiences have always been the exact opposite.
When I try to close the OOo spreadsheet program, it takes like 10 seconds, then pops up a dialog asking if I'd like to save, then takes another 20 seconds before it finally closes. I've never had MS Office take very long to load, and OOo seems to take forever. Though I tend to disable things like autocorrect, clippy, and such, and I haven't used Office 2003, which is no doubt slower than its predecessors, as every new MS product is. Office 2000 is lightning fast.
They're using technology to solve their problems. That's not right at all. Just say no to any technology that helps you work faster, because it's not fair to all the luddites who won't use it!
There was this neat game, "The Legend of Lezda: the Adventures of Jinx", that had a full page ad between every scene, trying to sell you advertising space in the next release of the game, which seems to have never been released.
I see a lot of people who don't want to learn anything beyond the skills (the MCSE answers) that got them their job, while at the same time believing they know everything about everything that matters (anything they don't know doesn't matter).
I met a sysadmin who manages hundreds of systems and swears he'll never touch any software labeled as open source because Microsoft told him it's insecure.
If they were really concerned about being unable to meet demand, they'd just raise the starting price, and/or try to increase production. There will be no shortage unless they've decided to create one.
The illegal downloads were hosted on a Windows server, which as we all know is closed source. Until we know the inner workings of the software, there's no way to prove if I'm responsible for providing the downloads or if someone else hacked into the system.
If it was only thousands, it wouldn't make a big difference.
I've also seen message boards where people talk about buying certain Dell servers to use as desktops. Depending on where you draw the line between high end desktop and low end server, the totals can vary a bit.
I've seen hundreds of macs in recent years. But they're all school property. Schools probably own enough macs to explain a great deal of the 16%. They keep them around forever, long after most PC's need replacing, and they don't generate nearly as many web site hits as home PC's.
Any good game needs plenty of inanimate objects that can be blown up.
He has a point on the easy mode. A game should have an easy mode that really is easy, and just default to normal difficulty when the user starts a new game. Playing Battle of Wesnoth, there are some levels that are actually impossible on "easy" if you fail to save up enough money from the previous levels.
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Great first post.
Phoenix > Firebird > Firefox > Deer Park
I bet they are in possession of a whole lot of illegal porn. An ISP that operates a squid cache might be liable too.
Now spin that from bad to good.
You can't trust blackhole lists. Too many non-spammers are blocked. Businesses lose customers when their email is very silently blackholed.
I guess I just haven't thought about in a few years. IE4 was still in the 10-20% range only about half a decade ago.
If you enable pagerank querying in the google toolbar, Google knows where you go.
I protect my javascript with stuff like this:
// Copyright 2005 David Finch
// Don't steal
It seems to work. There must be a few people out there who still respect copyright.
I even put a BSD license on one of my scripts, essentially making it public domain, and somebody asked for permission to copy it.
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I just have a function el(n) { return document.all ? document.all[n] : document.getElementById(n); }, then use el("element").
Some companies share their source code but only with customers, or share the source to anyone but demand paid licenses for commercial use. OpenMFG is one. There's also typically a guarantee that the product would become fully open source if abandoned.
I'm truly sorry. I thought he was the satellite. So how do you plan to retrieve him?
My experiences have always been the exact opposite.
When I try to close the OOo spreadsheet program, it takes like 10 seconds, then pops up a dialog asking if I'd like to save, then takes another 20 seconds before it finally closes. I've never had MS Office take very long to load, and OOo seems to take forever. Though I tend to disable things like autocorrect, clippy, and such, and I haven't used Office 2003, which is no doubt slower than its predecessors, as every new MS product is. Office 2000 is lightning fast.
Deconvolution has been around for many decades.
They're using technology to solve their problems. That's not right at all. Just say no to any technology that helps you work faster, because it's not fair to all the luddites who won't use it!
There was this neat game, "The Legend of Lezda: the Adventures of Jinx", that had a full page ad between every scene, trying to sell you advertising space in the next release of the game, which seems to have never been released.
They probably use VB6.
I see a lot of people who don't want to learn anything beyond the skills (the MCSE answers) that got them their job, while at the same time believing they know everything about everything that matters (anything they don't know doesn't matter).
I met a sysadmin who manages hundreds of systems and swears he'll never touch any software labeled as open source because Microsoft told him it's insecure.
They're just trying to make everyone want one.
If they were really concerned about being unable to meet demand, they'd just raise the starting price, and/or try to increase production. There will be no shortage unless they've decided to create one.
They'll at least complain until the next stable release, expected in about 2-3 years.
2.8 is about 3/4 of a year old already isn't it?
I thought of this first, but he doesn't speak in an Austrian accent, at least not in episodes I've seen.
The illegal downloads were hosted on a Windows server, which as we all know is closed source. Until we know the inner workings of the software, there's no way to prove if I'm responsible for providing the downloads or if someone else hacked into the system.
If it was only thousands, it wouldn't make a big difference.
I've also seen message boards where people talk about buying certain Dell servers to use as desktops. Depending on where you draw the line between high end desktop and low end server, the totals can vary a bit.
I've seen hundreds of macs in recent years. But they're all school property. Schools probably own enough macs to explain a great deal of the 16%. They keep them around forever, long after most PC's need replacing, and they don't generate nearly as many web site hits as home PC's.
Isn't Linux ahead of MacOS?
Any good game needs plenty of inanimate objects that can be blown up.
He has a point on the easy mode. A game should have an easy mode that really is easy, and just default to normal difficulty when the user starts a new game. Playing Battle of Wesnoth, there are some levels that are actually impossible on "easy" if you fail to save up enough money from the previous levels.