Dude, I'm totally with you. I'd love to be able to buy a laptop with Linux preinstalled.
AFAIK, aren't they now making laptop shells without mobos or processors that you can buy? And if you build your own, AFAIK you don't pay that tax do you?
Sad part is, a challenge to this patent stands a good chance of winning - there must be prior art out there, but who wants to go to the expense of such a stupid exercies in the first place. Good job US Patent Office for granting this one.
I was just over at a friend's place and made the pitch for FF... The response I got? "But I LIKE Internet Explorer". Touch pitch. She liked clicking on the blue "e" to surf the web instead of that strange FF logo.
I've switched a tonne of people already though. Many more comverts on the way. The campaign for FF is on!
I can kind of understand. Nerd user has parent/friend/life partner/whatever wanting computer. Why pay the Microsoft tax? All you need is one of those cheep Linux Wal-Mart PC's... The ones that run Linspire (Lindows) or Lycoris.
Then nerd takes computer, and wipes OS because said parent/friend/life partner/whatever can't/won't get Gnome/KDE. Said computer nerd then installs pirated version of XP on said computer.
Not saying it happens as many times as is suggested, but I can see it happening a lot on those cheep-o PC's.
So hang on... The courts can punish those who violate the license? Where I'm from, when I commit, a crime the law enforcement officers come along and send me to court, where I do jail time. IMHO punishment is a form of enforcement.
C'mon friggin' Microsux... Get it in your damn browser already... It'll take another four years before we'll be able to use it, but at least it'll be there...
Yeah? Yeah? Hey, I remember dialing in using Telix to play Trade Wars.
I recall tossing off to EGA pr0n back in my day for crying out loud. Pixelated pr0n in 16 colors w00t w00t.
Urban Institute Analyst Eugene Steuerle has estimated that households will spend on average $15,000 on health care costs in 2004, including $8,000 in taxes to cover government programs and tax subsidies. Health care costs now account for nearly 20 percent of household personal income. [Urban Institute, Tax Analysts, 9/29/03]
Buy if you use the word Jew in a sentence you're considered an Anti-Semite (by some - Many really good Jewish people out there, but some really draw that dagger way too quickly IMO).
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woops.. You can buy them without a processor that's all... Elitegroup makes them...
Not 100% sure if they come with the microsoft tax or not though
Dude, I'm totally with you. I'd love to be able to buy a laptop with Linux preinstalled.
AFAIK, aren't they now making laptop shells without mobos or processors that you can buy? And if you build your own, AFAIK you don't pay that tax do you?
Totally with you on that one... Probably just picked a number out of thin air.
Isn't garner the same people who did the old Microsoft has a lower TCO than Linux?
Sad part is, a challenge to this patent stands a good chance of winning - there must be prior art out there, but who wants to go to the expense of such a stupid exercies in the first place. Good job US Patent Office for granting this one.
Bit OT but...
I was just over at a friend's place and made the pitch for FF... The response I got? "But I LIKE Internet Explorer". Touch pitch. She liked clicking on the blue "e" to surf the web instead of that strange FF logo.
I've switched a tonne of people already though. Many more comverts on the way. The campaign for FF is on!
I can kind of understand. Nerd user has parent/friend/life partner/whatever wanting computer. Why pay the Microsoft tax? All you need is one of those cheep Linux Wal-Mart PC's... The ones that run Linspire (Lindows) or Lycoris.
Then nerd takes computer, and wipes OS because said parent/friend/life partner/whatever can't/won't get Gnome/KDE. Said computer nerd then installs pirated version of XP on said computer.
Not saying it happens as many times as is suggested, but I can see it happening a lot on those cheep-o PC's.
Wonder how they handle security. I guess because you swipe your card, you are responsible for the car you're in.
Something tells me some people aren't mature enough for a system like this. Neet idea though, I must admit...
Try not. Do or do not, there is no try.
I thought Yoda said that to Luke Skywalker... Didn't know that was originally a Spock quote...
I'm surprised some evangelist hasn't started barking about the third coming yet... They always seem to come out of the woodwork for this.
Death toll, or natural selection? Really, if you don't have enough sense to stay the hell away, then you get exactly what you deserve.
Didn't the department of homeland security decree that it was not terror related???
=D
So hang on... The courts can punish those who violate the license? Where I'm from, when I commit, a crime the law enforcement officers come along and send me to court, where I do jail time. IMHO punishment is a form of enforcement.
Then switch to Firefox like most of the /. community if you don't like popups.
And haven't you installed SP2 yet? Should block them as well...
Either way, shame on you!
C'mon friggin' Microsux... Get it in your damn browser already... It'll take another four years before we'll be able to use it, but at least it'll be there...
Threatening to Sue != Enforcement
Only the courts can enfore the Microsoft licensing.
HOWEVER, the little guy doesn't have pockets deep enough to fight Microsoft
Yeah? Yeah? Hey, I remember dialing in using Telix to play Trade Wars. I recall tossing off to EGA pr0n back in my day for crying out loud. Pixelated pr0n in 16 colors w00t w00t.
Told you I'd get modded down as a troll :) Oh well, I spoke my mind anyway.
I recall trying to get Quake working over friggin IPX/SPX... That was fun...
Yeah, personally I was a fan of Dr. Beverly. Hot, single mom. A cougar to be had IMHO. Counsillor Troy just revealed too damn much.
Uhm, Isn't $28,000 the poverty line?
Urban Institute Analyst Eugene Steuerle has estimated that households will spend on average $15,000 on health care costs in 2004, including $8,000 in taxes to cover government programs and tax subsidies. Health care costs now account for nearly 20 percent of household personal income. [Urban Institute, Tax Analysts, 9/29/03]
I hear about seniors coming to Canada to buy meds all the time.
Uh, I still watch Spaceballs today and find it funny - the jokes get better in time :)
Like Monty Python - Life of Brian bored me as a kid. never saw the humour in it. Now it's hysterical.
Buy if you use the word Jew in a sentence you're considered an Anti-Semite (by some - Many really good Jewish people out there, but some really draw that dagger way too quickly IMO).
Here it comes.... -5 (Troll | Flamebait)... What the hell, I have Karma to burn.
Uh, Blazing saddles was awesome! It's a classic!