Just like General Motors effectively takes the "better" gauge out of the car-stereo market when they choose what radio their consumers will get free with the car.
That argument would fit if A) GM made the cars that 90% of people bought, and B) if they were GM brand radios in the cars, and C) if GM said (under oath) that removing the radios was impossible to do if you wanted the car to run.
Umm, ya. The difference being I'm not in the 90% percent of PC users who don't know an "application" from a hole in the wall, and use whatever icon they can double-click first.
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That, and the fact that they built a better Web browser.
Many people don't get this. It doesn't matter if it was better or not. Microsoft effectively took the "better" gauge out of it when they chose which browser their consumers would use. If it truly was better, then the free market and capitalism in general dictate that it would come out on top because the users would make the choice. Microsoft stole the right to choose from the consumer, and that is infinitely worse than killing a company.
(You know, it's been a while since they pulled these tricks, but every time I think about Microsoft's monopolistic, illegal actions, it still makes me furious.)
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There is still lots of room for someone with ideas to make a difference.
What you have to remember is that there are now rich companies with high-priced lawyers playing the game, and you can be damn sure that they'll make it exceedingly difficult for "someone" to succeed unless they get a slice of the pie. And they like big slices.
No sign of Jar-Jar, maybe, but take a look at this, about 1/3 down. There's actually a character named "Elan Sleazebaggano." Sleazebaggano?? That's so cheesie it's almost insulting.
I promise you, your life will not be significantly altered if you refuse to pay $10 to be dissapointed for two hours.
I disagree. You'll be left out of countless inside jokes and references that your friends, comedians, and of course,/.ers will make.
If you didn't watch Phantom Menace until it was rentable, you would have no idea who this Jar-Jar was, and how he could have sucked so bad to lead some people to suicide.
I'm sorry but I'll take Visual Studio's debugger _any day_ over gdb. I'm not a GUI weenie either. It's just way, way more useable and powerful.
...I can't see why any serious software engineers would even consider Windows a viable alternative at all. It may take a bit of pursuading on your part, but the reduced cost and ease of coding for Linux make the decision a no-brainer.
Whoa, hold on there. You can't honestly recommend a complete platform change like that. The asker is looking for a windows IDE, which probably means he already has some hard-earned software he needs to support/maintain.
Wow, those are cool loopholes, but what it all boils down to is that you're still pirating software. I'm not sure a legit business would want to deal with the bad PR if someone did find out (through a disgruntled ex-employee perhaps?) that you only bought one copy of Office for N employees.
If it was _my_ company, I would just look for alternative software like OpenOffice. Shafting the BSA and Big Software* is definitely a good goal though.;)
* I'm officially coining the term Big Software (same evil connotation as Big Tobacco), if it hasn't be coined already.;)
Sticking to a release date no matter the state of the code is unprofessional.
True, but if you don't do that, there will always be a few developers saying the code is not ready, and there's still work to be done. That's how releases end up getting ridiculously delayed.
It comes down to the responsibility of the developers. If there's a freeze coming up, have enough common sense to know that it's not arbitrary, and it's for the good of the project. Don't barf all over the code 2 weeks ahead of time just to get a whiz-bang feature in.
I don't buy it (the complaint that is). The reasons for the changes seem to be for the long term good of KDE, and to keep the breakage of going from 3.0 to 3.1 in the future to a minimum.
I have found the KDE guys' release scheduling and management of high quality in the past, and judging from the minimum of hiccups I got building 3.0 RC1, I can say they're still top notch.
Also, avoid Sonic Adventure 2 Battle for the GC like the plague. It might have been a good game, if I could see my self fucking move around. The camera problems are that bad.
Super Monkey Ball, also by Sega, rocked, so I was expecting similar quality...
At the least, rent it first if you feel like buying it.
Wow, I wish I went to your school because at mine (UCLA), I could be sure that 95% of the people in my CS classes knew nothing but Microsoft.
Microsoft knows marketing, that's for damn sure. They give out free copies of everything from NT, to PocketPC's to students, in order to make sure that graduating engineers know MS products very well.
Couldn't one create a distributed PC client that would compile the TV listings from around the world (Maybe leeching content off of TVGuide.com).
Even more interesting than that idea is that you don't need to chew on HTML to get the listings. See XMLTV.
Now that I have some free time on my hands, I think I'm going to start that home PVR project based on XMLTV. You don't need to sacrifice useability either, as there is code out there for on-screen menuing. Nice.
You raise an interesting point: why not skip the dubbing altogether. I'd really like to learn Japanese, not just for anime, but so I could live there too, and who wouldn't want to live in Japan? I assume it's damn hard to learn though, has anyone tried it?
You appear to be correct. And I don't think that even includes rentals ($324m US). I really don't think Titanic's global performance will be beaten for a long, long time.
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Any hints for viewing these under linux? I tried mplayer but it seems it supports up to divx4, not 5 (right?)
Just like General Motors effectively takes the "better" gauge out of the car-stereo market when they choose what radio their consumers will get free with the car.
That argument would fit if A) GM made the cars that 90% of people bought, and B) if they were GM brand radios in the cars, and C) if GM said (under oath) that removing the radios was impossible to do if you wanted the car to run.
Umm, ya. The difference being I'm not in the 90% percent of PC users who don't know an "application" from a hole in the wall, and use whatever icon they can double-click first.
That, and the fact that they built a better Web browser.
Many people don't get this. It doesn't matter if it was better or not. Microsoft effectively took the "better" gauge out of it when they chose which browser their consumers would use. If it truly was better, then the free market and capitalism in general dictate that it would come out on top because the users would make the choice. Microsoft stole the right to choose from the consumer, and that is infinitely worse than killing a company.
(You know, it's been a while since they pulled these tricks, but every time I think about Microsoft's monopolistic, illegal actions, it still makes me furious.)
There is still lots of room for someone with ideas to make a difference.
What you have to remember is that there are now rich companies with high-priced lawyers playing the game, and you can be damn sure that they'll make it exceedingly difficult for "someone" to succeed unless they get a slice of the pie. And they like big slices.
No sign of Jar-Jar, maybe, but take a look at this, about 1/3 down. There's actually a character named "Elan Sleazebaggano." Sleazebaggano?? That's so cheesie it's almost insulting.
I promise you, your life will not be significantly altered if you refuse to pay $10 to be dissapointed for two hours.
/.ers will make.
I disagree. You'll be left out of countless inside jokes and references that your friends, comedians, and of course,
If you didn't watch Phantom Menace until it was rentable, you would have no idea who this Jar-Jar was, and how he could have sucked so bad to lead some people to suicide.
GDB: a debugger of certainly adequate power
...I can't see why any serious software engineers would even consider Windows a viable alternative at all. It may take a bit of pursuading on your part, but the reduced cost and ease of coding for Linux make the decision a no-brainer.
I'm sorry but I'll take Visual Studio's debugger _any day_ over gdb. I'm not a GUI weenie either. It's just way, way more useable and powerful.
Whoa, hold on there. You can't honestly recommend a complete platform change like that. The asker is looking for a windows IDE, which probably means he already has some hard-earned software he needs to support/maintain.
Wow, those are cool loopholes, but what it all boils down to is that you're still pirating software. I'm not sure a legit business would want to deal with the bad PR if someone did find out (through a disgruntled ex-employee perhaps?) that you only bought one copy of Office for N employees.
;)
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If it was _my_ company, I would just look for alternative software like OpenOffice. Shafting the BSA and Big Software* is definitely a good goal though.
* I'm officially coining the term Big Software (same evil connotation as Big Tobacco), if it hasn't be coined already.
Sticking to a release date no matter the state of the code is unprofessional.
True, but if you don't do that, there will always be a few developers saying the code is not ready, and there's still work to be done. That's how releases end up getting ridiculously delayed.
It comes down to the responsibility of the developers. If there's a freeze coming up, have enough common sense to know that it's not arbitrary, and it's for the good of the project. Don't barf all over the code 2 weeks ahead of time just to get a whiz-bang feature in.
I don't buy it (the complaint that is). The reasons for the changes seem to be for the long term good of KDE, and to keep the breakage of going from 3.0 to 3.1 in the future to a minimum.
I have found the KDE guys' release scheduling and management of high quality in the past, and judging from the minimum of hiccups I got building 3.0 RC1, I can say they're still top notch.
Also, avoid Sonic Adventure 2 Battle for the GC like the plague. It might have been a good game, if I could see my self fucking move around. The camera problems are that bad.
Super Monkey Ball, also by Sega, rocked, so I was expecting similar quality...
At the least, rent it first if you feel like buying it.
Then there are these neat things called "oars."
And for loneliness there are these things called "whores."
Does a 1.2Ghz PC have one of THESE for you to play with? :)
Wow, I wish I went to your school because at mine (UCLA), I could be sure that 95% of the people in my CS classes knew nothing but Microsoft.
Microsoft knows marketing, that's for damn sure. They give out free copies of everything from NT, to PocketPC's to students, in order to make sure that graduating engineers know MS products very well.
Couldn't one create a distributed PC client that would compile the TV listings from around the world (Maybe leeching content off of TVGuide.com).
Even more interesting than that idea is that you don't need to chew on HTML to get the listings. See XMLTV.
Now that I have some free time on my hands, I think I'm going to start that home PVR project based on XMLTV. You don't need to sacrifice useability either, as there is code out there for on-screen menuing. Nice.
You raise an interesting point: why not skip the dubbing altogether. I'd really like to learn Japanese, not just for anime, but so I could live there too, and who wouldn't want to live in Japan? I assume it's damn hard to learn though, has anyone tried it?
Yes, friends, subscribe to /. now for this kind of journalistic integrity and quality.
You appear to be correct. And I don't think that even includes rentals ($324m US). I really don't think Titanic's global performance will be beaten for a long, long time.
I just sat there ask asked "Why?"
Duh. The point is that pissing off clients and ruining their day with childish shenanigans can be a humorous and worth-while endeavor.
Sigh, what's next, perpetual motion?
In this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics!
"Hi! How are you? I send you this in order to have your vote.
See you later. Thanks"
Dude, give it a rest. You're not cool, or annoying. You're just wasting your own time.
People already routinely pay 500% more than they need to for clothes (ck)
Hrm... I might spend 500% more, but that means I'm 500% cooler than you!
I think the great example is postmen. I could see this cutting in half the number of postmen you need to cover an area.
And I could see the price of the stamp jumping to 95 cents to pay for the overpriced scooters.