some guy has donated a HUGE amount of money to charity, and all he get's is
"it's only loose change to him, I'm not impressed"
oh come on, how many of you have honestly donated %1.5 of your assets?
and
"the linux community is providing free software for the people in deprived countries, I know which I prefer"
yeah, and I'm sure they'll be greatful for the free sopftware when they have terminal illnesses.
some people really need to grow up. Whatever your feelings on Bill Gates as head of the evil empire, I do not see how you can possibly castigate him for his acts of charity.
anyone who's ever played a first person shooter could tell you this. There's nothing sweeter (and more selfish) than following around someone who's just foiled your most intricate stealthy plan, killing them again and again as they spawn, to the detriment of your team.
MS would effectively be shooting itself in the foot by contributing to WINE. Very few users who run linux would pay for MS products. By contributing to WINE, MS would simply be making a competing operating system a stronger and more viable alternative for more and more people.. Any revenue gained by selling MS products to linux users would probably be lost as linux increases it's market share.
Do you then say e-mail must be deleted and not saved without explicit permission? What about letters and the postal service. Is anyone keeping old letters guilty of "logging" the conversations. Written media surely should not apply to these rules since by definition it is "logged" at least temporarily as soon as it is sent.
one of the main reasons that people download music for free is because of the 12+ cost of CD's. When the prices drop, people are more inclined to buy a CD.
Virgin Megastores recently offered 6 CD's for 30, basically working out at a fiver a go. I bought my first Cd's for years during this deal, because music once again became affordable for me.
Similarly, a lot of people don't object to legally purchusaing music from iTunes etc. If they're going to push the prices up again, the same thing will happen, more and more people will turn to downloading it for free P2P. Untill the record companies wise up to these simple facts, we're just going to keep going round in circles.
The only characters who play a part in both tales (as far as I can remember) are Gandalf, Bilbo, Gollum and Elrond. The same actors would surely have to be used...!
for purely scientific interests (honest) I went onto the first site recommended by NightSurf for "xfree86" and hit the source code. A quick search revealed that the word xfree86 isn't mentioned ANYWHERE.
Whwta are the benefits of writing open sourcve software? Why bother, because it does not benefit us as an individual. By the same logic, charity is pointless, and kindness, and in fact any act of giving without recieving.
But thats not strictly true, there are several things to be gained. Respect, admiration, the feeling of a job well done.
Sure, the girl at the bar won't know you. But does the girl at the bar know any closed source software developers either? Does this girl know the person who invented the messenger program she uses, or the ftp program, or the browser that she uses?
Going into a job interview saying "I am the author of this software" is not going to be less impressive because it is OS.
magine the scenario:
Darth Gates is kneeling before the Queen, ready to recieve his reward. The Queen then wheels the swords round her head and with a shout of "fear the penguin" decapitates Gates in a single swing. It turns out that the Queen is a secret Linux zealot, and likes to compile her kernel just like the rest of us
queen@palace # chmod +x Gates
queen@palace #./Gates
my old mans a bank manager, and regularly gets handed forgeries. He can pick the forgery from 20 other notes with his eyes closed, the _feel_ of the paper is always different, without even worrying about what it actually looks like.
the only member of my family who still uses windows 98 is my gran. Quite frankly if it was good for my gran when she bought it, it will be good for her in ten years time.
When your only using it for word processing and solitaire, and your grandson won't install internet access for you, theres very little that would need MS support anyway.
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some guy has donated a HUGE amount of money to charity, and all he get's is
"it's only loose change to him, I'm not impressed" oh come on, how many of you have honestly donated %1.5 of your assets?
and
"the linux community is providing free software for the people in deprived countries, I know which I prefer" yeah, and I'm sure they'll be greatful for the free sopftware when they have terminal illnesses.
some people really need to grow up. Whatever your feelings on Bill Gates as head of the evil empire, I do not see how you can possibly castigate him for his acts of charity.
are you joking? How else do you get the football scores without teletext?
...who wants to be a millionaire.
anyone who's ever played a first person shooter could tell you this. There's nothing sweeter (and more selfish) than following around someone who's just foiled your most intricate stealthy plan, killing them again and again as they spawn, to the detriment of your team.
MS would effectively be shooting itself in the foot by contributing to WINE. Very few users who run linux would pay for MS products. By contributing to WINE, MS would simply be making a competing operating system a stronger and more viable alternative for more and more people.. Any revenue gained by selling MS products to linux users would probably be lost as linux increases it's market share.
Do you then say e-mail must be deleted and not saved without explicit permission? What about letters and the postal service. Is anyone keeping old letters guilty of "logging" the conversations. Written media surely should not apply to these rules since by definition it is "logged" at least temporarily as soon as it is sent.
Virgin Megastores recently offered 6 CD's for 30, basically working out at a fiver a go. I bought my first Cd's for years during this deal, because music once again became affordable for me.
Similarly, a lot of people don't object to legally purchusaing music from iTunes etc. If they're going to push the prices up again, the same thing will happen, more and more people will turn to downloading it for free P2P. Untill the record companies wise up to these simple facts, we're just going to keep going round in circles.
...hoping for a May the Fourth release? Oh dear, I can remember my dad using that joke, this must be bad.
The only characters who play a part in both tales (as far as I can remember) are Gandalf, Bilbo, Gollum and Elrond. The same actors would surely have to be used...!
for purely scientific interests (honest) I went onto the first site recommended by NightSurf for "xfree86" and hit the source code. A quick search revealed that the word xfree86 isn't mentioned ANYWHERE.
Whwta are the benefits of writing open sourcve software? Why bother, because it does not benefit us as an individual. By the same logic, charity is pointless, and kindness, and in fact any act of giving without recieving. But thats not strictly true, there are several things to be gained. Respect, admiration, the feeling of a job well done. Sure, the girl at the bar won't know you. But does the girl at the bar know any closed source software developers either? Does this girl know the person who invented the messenger program she uses, or the ftp program, or the browser that she uses? Going into a job interview saying "I am the author of this software" is not going to be less impressive because it is OS.
so as long as a burgler can make more money through crime than he spends, it is a rational career path?
can they not claim the "Lin" comes from LINux, only leaving the suffix "dows" which MS can surely not claim trademark violation of :D
magine the scenario: Darth Gates is kneeling before the Queen, ready to recieve his reward. The Queen then wheels the swords round her head and with a shout of "fear the penguin" decapitates Gates in a single swing. It turns out that the Queen is a secret Linux zealot, and likes to compile her kernel just like the rest of us queen@palace # chmod +x Gates queen@palace # ./Gates
my old mans a bank manager, and regularly gets handed forgeries. He can pick the forgery from 20 other notes with his eyes closed, the _feel_ of the paper is always different, without even worrying about what it actually looks like.
all we need now is the live "martian" webcam, so we can watch for aliens. After all, I can already watch for nessie from the comfort of my own home
...and i've been putting unix code into linux. Do they expect people to admit it?
the only member of my family who still uses windows 98 is my gran. Quite frankly if it was good for my gran when she bought it, it will be good for her in ten years time. When your only using it for word processing and solitaire, and your grandson won't install internet access for you, theres very little that would need MS support anyway.