The sole purpose of the Matrix is to extract dollars from middle class young white males, via the film, DVD and video game releases and ancillary marketing of related products. That is it. The entire trilogy is STUPEFYINGLY idiotic. The studios cleaned up on this one though with global sales of over $1 billion USD, so you can expect the trend to continue in a big way.
If I am to take the findings with a grain of salt, then why bother submitting the item to slashdot? Just so I can reinforce some stereotypes I may or may not have?
I know it is hard for you to understand, but those assets are really your parents assets until you reach 18. It doesn't matter if you bought it with "your money".
As you said, your checking account is a joint account since you cannot open a checking account independently if you are a minor.
"In the highly-publicised cases of "gifts" to Africa to fight diseases, the fine print informs us that these are actually loans a full market-price interest rates. And the money can only be spent for drugs from the companies that Bill has stock in."
Christ, +5 Insightful. How stupid can slashbots get?
Well if they just left it to the stupid taxpayers they would just waste it on food, clothing, education, etc. Its a good thing that the government knows how to spend the peoples money properly.
I don't understand how this is Big Brother technology. It is a form of ID which is nescessary if you are going to be paying with a credit card or a check that requires an ID.
I won't miss them either. Their slimey ex-CEO and COO are now under indictment too, for fraud. Personally, I don't think SuSe should align themselves with such a dishonest company.
I know this. But Dell is also successfully selling computers, and this is their core business. Gateway on the other hand is attempting to change their core business, due to their losing $417 million last year alone.
Michael Dell is smarter than Ted Waitt and has better hair too.
For those of you that aren't familiar with the U.S. market, Gateway is practically dead in the computer space. Dell has taken over anything they once had. Gateway is now focusing on selling plasma televisions and home entertainment in a last bid to survive.
Too bad that slide is factually incorrect. It clains that in order to migrate to.NET you need significant retraining and redevelopment.
Well um, I am using.NET technologies right now and I don't see it. Still looks like a Windows app to me. Needless to say the "old" Win32 apps still work fine in.NET too.
This is a bit sensationalistic. What they did was construct an artificial genome and inject into an already existing cell (that presumably had its genetic material removed).
Interesting idea, but do you have the right to have access to the work once it has become public domain? I don't believe that the copyright holders are compelled to make the work accessible to you even after it becomes public domain. They simply give up the copyright to the work.
I doubt that there would be any complaint if you attempted to circumvent DRM to gain access to a work that is in the public domain.
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Negotiating contracts is a "social event"??? No, I think the grandparent post meant what he said. The managers go play golf and such.
Interesting outfit. Supposedly rabidly Anti-Microsoft but checking out the Nitrogen laptop specs:
-Communications: 10/100 LAN, 56K V90/V92 WinModem and optional Wi-Fi/802.11b Wireless LAN
WinModem??? Also, try right clicking to copy text from the web site. How odd.
The sole purpose of the Matrix is to extract dollars from middle class young white males, via the film, DVD and video game releases and ancillary marketing of related products. That is it. The entire trilogy is STUPEFYINGLY idiotic. The studios cleaned up on this one though with global sales of over $1 billion USD, so you can expect the trend to continue in a big way.
If I am to take the findings with a grain of salt, then why bother submitting the item to slashdot? Just so I can reinforce some stereotypes I may or may not have?
Well longhorn is "a real thing available now" in alpha releases. Linus needs to grow up.
Are you saying that slashbots are hypocrites???
I know it is hard for you to understand, but those assets are really your parents assets until you reach 18. It doesn't matter if you bought it with "your money".
As you said, your checking account is a joint account since you cannot open a checking account independently if you are a minor.
"In the highly-publicised cases of "gifts" to Africa to fight diseases, the fine print informs us that these are actually loans a full market-price interest rates. And the money can only be spent for drugs from the companies that Bill has stock in."
Christ, +5 Insightful. How stupid can slashbots get?
Well if they just left it to the stupid taxpayers they would just waste it on food, clothing, education, etc. Its a good thing that the government knows how to spend the peoples money properly.
I don't understand how this is Big Brother technology. It is a form of ID which is nescessary if you are going to be paying with a credit card or a check that requires an ID.
BTW, "meme" is sooo 90's. Please stop using it.
I won't miss them either. Their slimey ex-CEO and COO are now under indictment too, for fraud. Personally, I don't think SuSe should align themselves with such a dishonest company.
+3 Informative. Nice. I'll bet the "M$" got a +1 by itself!
I know this. But Dell is also successfully selling computers, and this is their core business. Gateway on the other hand is attempting to change their core business, due to their losing $417 million last year alone.
Michael Dell is smarter than Ted Waitt and has better hair too.
For those of you that aren't familiar with the U.S. market, Gateway is practically dead in the computer space. Dell has taken over anything they once had. Gateway is now focusing on selling plasma televisions and home entertainment in a last bid to survive.
How would that kill a piece of software? It would still be interoperable to the 2003 spec correct?
So everyone you know uses Mozilla therefore it must be very popular? Irrefutable logic. +5 Insightful.
In the real world, Mozilla has about a 3% share of the installed base of browsers. Don't expect that figure to jump any time soon.
Why would I pay money for something when I can get it legally for free? Thats illogical.
Are you joking, or serious? .NET isn't about widgets.
Too bad that slide is factually incorrect. It clains that in order to migrate to .NET you need significant retraining and redevelopment.
.NET technologies right now and I don't see it. Still looks like a Windows app to me. Needless to say the "old" Win32 apps still work fine in .NET too.
Well um, I am using
Only on slashdot would this be marked as "informative".
He didn't even mention the DirectX 9.1 compatibility issues with Ethernet framing!
2. Something that poisens one's sole or mind. Ex. The pernicious virus of racism.
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God, that was from dictionary.com??? "sole"? "poisens"? Who maintains that site - CmdrTaco???
This is a bit sensationalistic. What they did was construct an artificial genome and inject into an already existing cell (that presumably had its genetic material removed).
Impressive though.
Interesting idea, but do you have the right to have access to the work once it has become public domain? I don't believe that the copyright holders are compelled to make the work accessible to you even after it becomes public domain. They simply give up the copyright to the work.
I doubt that there would be any complaint if you attempted to circumvent DRM to gain access to a work that is in the public domain.
What would make you a criminal by watching a DVD under Linux? As far as I know there are no laws that say that you cannot watch a DVD under Linux.
Really? Explain what user "rights" that the DRM takes away. The right to freely distribute the copyrighted work in Kazaa? C'mon, what crap.