Slashdot's tendency to weed out all but the most dedicated keeps the signal-to-noise ratio extremely high, but it probably drives away many, many potential posters.
I always suspected slashdot is a training ground for writers. Or half the Science fiction/fantasy literature out there gets quoted here.;)
Would they? The gamble here is on the nature of people - are most people willing to actually put forth effort towards something, or will they just look for a quick fix? I'd be willing to put my money on the latter. People are lazy, and would rather whine until the situation gets changed than change themselves.
Well, it's not like the already sold software ceases to exist. Home users would have a year or more until Vista is out and they would have to think about it.
Microsoft has contracts with companies, not with the EU.
Those corporates will sue Microsoft into last week if they do not live up to their contractual obligations.
And after the companies have (had to) changed to other software, it would be a lost market for Microsoft.
Same with the gas, show people that something doesn't work and watch how much work they put into alternatives to get away from it.
Nobody forgets if you try to win something on their back and not on your own.
and being european myself i want ot add that it's most likely just another bloated bureaucrazy riddled project of the EU.
The only people who will care about the project in a few years are those who remember how much money was put into it (and want to use it as a bad example against another money shredder project, hopefully).
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you made me realise my addiction. Only posting here to get my April's Fool achievement. :(
The software and the data can be downloaded here too: http://www.freedb.org/modules.php?name=Sections&so p=listarticles&secid=7/.
Don't worry, i blame my own government and the EU for licking everything up that Bush shits on the ground.
http://www.sqlite.org/
The website says 250KiB fully configured. That is tolerable, i think.
Would they? The gamble here is on the nature of people - are most people willing to actually put forth effort towards something, or will they just look for a quick fix? I'd be willing to put my money on the latter. People are lazy, and would rather whine until the situation gets changed than change themselves.
Well, it's not like the already sold software ceases to exist. Home users would have a year or more until Vista is out and they would have to think about it.
Microsoft has contracts with companies, not with the EU.
Those corporates will sue Microsoft into last week if they do not live up to their contractual obligations. And after the companies have (had to) changed to other software, it would be a lost market for Microsoft.
Same with the gas, show people that something doesn't work and watch how much work they put into alternatives to get away from it.
Nobody forgets if you try to win something on their back and not on your own.
Skol, matey. Let's drink till we are conserved.
I would mod you up, but i can't this week. 100% ack.
and being european myself i want ot add that it's most likely just another bloated bureaucrazy riddled project of the EU. The only people who will care about the project in a few years are those who remember how much money was put into it (and want to use it as a bad example against another money shredder project, hopefully).
someone should sue them about patent infringments after they agreed on something.
I for one welcome our new encrypted overlord.