Unfortunately, all OSes are suffering from bloat these days. I suppose you can blame it on cheaper memory, disk space and faster hardware. That goes for OSS as well.
On the other hand, if your OSS OS is only used as a firewall for your Windows box, then your comparison is as flawed as MS's infamous UK TCO comparison to Linux on big iron IBM.
The lack of grammar checking plug-in for the time being is not a drawback. I don't use word processors much these days but when I do, I often find myself yelling at the screen, "That's right! I had intended to use passive voice!"
$5 interest on a $10,000 loan is 1.3% per annum, not likely. At 21% (comparable to a high credit card rate), that "parking fee" would be closer to $81, still not bad for two weeks. A pawn shop will charge much more than a bank.
MS has always tested its products in-house as well as using public betas. Results of those tests, however, have not prevented them from shipping before it was ready.
A good chunk of the patent office's revenue is sent to other places in the government. Very little of it stays with them. If they changed that, and made it so they got to keep most of that money, they could be a lot more efficient.
It's true that the Patent Office takes in more revenue than it spends on its operations but allowing it to retain all its revenue would only assure that it would grant more patents, not smarter patents.
What the patent office needs are examiners who aren't cloistered on remote mountain top monastery, disconnected from the rest of the world. What it needs is fundamental reform of its methodologies for examining and issuing patents. What it needs is a new generation of patent examiners who understand prior art and obviousness. It needs a process to allow for public comments because the scientific knowledge in the Patent Office dismally lacking for its mission. Increasing the USPTO budget does not address any of these needs and would in all likelihood result in more of the same.
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Unfortunately, all OSes are suffering from bloat these days. I suppose you can blame it on cheaper memory, disk space and faster hardware. That goes for OSS as well. On the other hand, if your OSS OS is only used as a firewall for your Windows box, then your comparison is as flawed as MS's infamous UK TCO comparison to Linux on big iron IBM.
The lack of grammar checking plug-in for the time being is not a drawback. I don't use word processors much these days but when I do, I often find myself yelling at the screen, "That's right! I had intended to use passive voice!"
Oops, disregard my brain fart.
Make that 1,000,000 zeroes.
we should forget Windows and go with a Radio Shack TRaSh-80, which should be dirt cheap.
$5 interest on a $10,000 loan is 1.3% per annum, not likely. At 21% (comparable to a high credit card rate), that "parking fee" would be closer to $81, still not bad for two weeks. A pawn shop will charge much more than a bank.
Too late for me. My SCO investment is in the tank.
If they had a better pricing structure in place from the beginning, SCO might have earned as much as $15,000 instead of $11,000.
Better yet, why did this waste of everyone's bandwidth get modded up when a link was already provided.
True, but his hair never gets too old. ^_^
Maybe "public" is the wrong word but the distribution of beta software isn't strictly within MS.
MS has always tested its products in-house as well as using public betas. Results of those tests, however, have not prevented them from shipping before it was ready.
Fortunately, there is another one that counts how many times the counter has rolled over. ^_^
I d/led the QT trailer and it played just fine - fullscreen too. ** psst ** Don't tell Steve Jobs, I used xine.
AT&T Bell Laboratories was taken.
I wish designnews.com would fully disclose the author's motivation for spreading his FUD.
Cause it's dead?
I'm guessing that they were using MS Access before moving to Oracle 10g on a Linux cluster.
What the patent office needs are examiners who aren't cloistered on remote mountain top monastery, disconnected from the rest of the world. What it needs is fundamental reform of its methodologies for examining and issuing patents. What it needs is a new generation of patent examiners who understand prior art and obviousness. It needs a process to allow for public comments because the scientific knowledge in the Patent Office dismally lacking for its mission. Increasing the USPTO budget does not address any of these needs and would in all likelihood result in more of the same.
Egads, man, the mdb file is 68MB uncompressed. Surely, it's enough to satisfy the database starved ones.
The real question should be do they have a SCO IP license?
I never thought it would happen to me but one night while giving my PC the three finger salute ....
Try educating yourself, troll. Frying pan meets pot.