How does paying royalties to a company make a product more or less sucessful? If the product is great (and marketed well) it will be sucessful, otherwise it won't be.
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In an enterprise situation your tech team better be computer savvy. There are many problems that can, and do, arise that require someone who knows a bit more then how to open up MS Word, read an email, etc. So if MS laid claim, two years ago, that you can get away with someone who doesn't know how to be a sysadmin then they really do think their corporate clients are morons.
Yea i just bought the latest and greatest DVD burner (which i can't use to full speed because I tend to look for the least expensive DVD's, not the fastest DVD's).
By the time this thing comes down in price to something I can afford ($100) I will be happy to get rid of my DVD burner.
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And let us not forget, compatability with other software/hardware.
I am sure someone can design a super fast, super cheap system. But now make it work with all of our fun and favorite software (with easy integration), and the ball game changes.:)
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Space travel would cost a whole lot less if they had private, enterprise minded individuals managing the budget. The problem with government spending is that if you don't spend at least 100% of your alotted funds, then the following year you get less money. So the mindset is to go over budget.
NASA gets a lot of flak from the government and tends to get its budget cut when the gov't needs to "save" money. Why can't we just build one less nuclear submarine and one less super air-craft carrier per year - that alone will save billions.
Another thing is that government contracts are the most lucrative for private businesses - why? Because the private business can charge the hell out of the government (hence old stories like the $100.00 hammers, etc..)
Let's face it there is a lot of red tape in government, a lot of silver palming (goes together with the red tape) --- overall a terrible mindset that hinders our entire society, not just the space program.
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You mean like the advanced DVD copy of Lord of the Rings: Return of the Kings that someone might (cough) have in their collection while the movie was still in theatres?
Yes I agree, people who work for the movie studios have "loose lips" and they need to shoulder some of the blame.
I believe he was discussing about the right of privacy. While the person who is breaking the law is in the wrong, that does not permit companies outside the service provider the "right" to gain access to private consumer logs. Who knows, I wouldn't be surprised to find out that some of these companies happend to let these user logs fall into the hands of spam dealers. At the very least I do not want someone combing through my personal download/upload logs be it legal or illegal. Nor do I want some outside company knowing that I subscribe to comcast and what my settings, address, billing code, etc is.
Look at the bright side, that means more revenue for the patents office. Hopefully some of that money (MS money) will filter to taxes and come to us:)
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I cried many times during FF IX...ahh FF I, still my all time favorite:)
I remember playing Resident Evil II. I was living off-campus, all my friends were out. I was creaped out, kept turning around and looking behind me.
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I did not say mass killing of people - i said wipe out the terrorists. There are (without a doubt) many known terrorists out there. They and their supports need to be killed. These groups are a bit beyond resonable.
And yes I do believe that a way to help some of the middle eastern nations is to give them a reason to care enough so they will not want to help hide terrorists. However, it is not going to be as easy as giving someone a nice home, car, bank roll, job, medical care and education. The current power structures who control these terroristic groups do not exactly care what our possible solutions might be. They want to remain in power, and to do so, they will prevent their own people from gaining these benefits -- all under the guise that Western capitalism is the root of all evil, bleh bleh bleh....
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The middle east will continue to be a battle ground until the terrorists are wiped out. The lack of the middle east being able to sell oil (which even if we switched over totally to electric cars today probably won't kick in for another 10-15 years)will just mean that the elite in the middle eastern oil producing countries become poorer though they would still be super rich.
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I agree that what is going on is wrong. The company that should be sued is the company who purchased the advertisement with (presumably) knowledge that "AXA" is their competitor and not (for example) one of their products.
I think, however, that Google should be held to some form of standards for its paid advertisers. I think Google (and other advertisers) should check up on their paying subscribers. If these guys are turning a profit, they have at least some responsibility instead of using a fully automated "faultless" system.
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THe company i work for utilizes software assurance. We pay an upfront fee and get almost all our MS software (server side and desktop side). We probably save 50% off the retail value.
We are a company of roughly 110 people.
Big pricedifference from what you have listed. All our software is the pro edition.
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And in part two of your statement you list the huge problem with Open Office. Maybe in someone's personal life they can deal with the inconsistencies of a file not opening correctly, but in an enterprise situation (such as the one I am in) we cannot afford this. I am talking about documents that are hundreds of pages long that will be converted to PDF. Each of our document writers have office 97 and office XP on their machines for their various projects.
It is expensive either way, and each company needs to look at the pro's and con's of using MS Office, Open office, or any other program you can think of.
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How does paying royalties to a company make a product more or less sucessful? If the product is great (and marketed well) it will be sucessful, otherwise it won't be. -A
Final Fantasy I Final Fantasy is the reason I picked Nintendo, Super Nintendo, and then Playstation and Playstation 2 :)
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In an enterprise situation your tech team better be computer savvy. There are many problems that can, and do, arise that require someone who knows a bit more then how to open up MS Word, read an email, etc. So if MS laid claim, two years ago, that you can get away with someone who doesn't know how to be a sysadmin then they really do think their corporate clients are morons.
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Yea i just bought the latest and greatest DVD burner (which i can't use to full speed because I tend to look for the least expensive DVD's, not the fastest DVD's). By the time this thing comes down in price to something I can afford ($100) I will be happy to get rid of my DVD burner. -A
the wimp is hiding in fear?
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And let us not forget, compatability with other software/hardware. I am sure someone can design a super fast, super cheap system. But now make it work with all of our fun and favorite software (with easy integration), and the ball game changes. :)
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Space travel would cost a whole lot less if they had private, enterprise minded individuals managing the budget. The problem with government spending is that if you don't spend at least 100% of your alotted funds, then the following year you get less money. So the mindset is to go over budget. NASA gets a lot of flak from the government and tends to get its budget cut when the gov't needs to "save" money. Why can't we just build one less nuclear submarine and one less super air-craft carrier per year - that alone will save billions. Another thing is that government contracts are the most lucrative for private businesses - why? Because the private business can charge the hell out of the government (hence old stories like the $100.00 hammers, etc..) Let's face it there is a lot of red tape in government, a lot of silver palming (goes together with the red tape) --- overall a terrible mindset that hinders our entire society, not just the space program. -A
Don't worry, they were using Pentium Pro processors.... -A
You mean like the advanced DVD copy of Lord of the Rings: Return of the Kings that someone might (cough) have in their collection while the movie was still in theatres?
Yes I agree, people who work for the movie studios have "loose lips" and they need to shoulder some of the blame.
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I believe he was discussing about the right of privacy. While the person who is breaking the law is in the wrong, that does not permit companies outside the service provider the "right" to gain access to private consumer logs. Who knows, I wouldn't be surprised to find out that some of these companies happend to let these user logs fall into the hands of spam dealers. At the very least I do not want someone combing through my personal download/upload logs be it legal or illegal. Nor do I want some outside company knowing that I subscribe to comcast and what my settings, address, billing code, etc is.
that my computer sounds like a 747 getting ready to take off...
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"If you had had a PubSub.com SEC Edgar subscription, you would have been one of the first to see this filing."
:) God bless our system lol.
Well the companies trying to make a buck on Google's name already begins
Look at the bright side, that means more revenue for the patents office. Hopefully some of that money (MS money) will filter to taxes and come to us :)
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But you let those who do, do so; that is, unless you want a dumbed-down, incompetent populace... down to the very last potential engineer.
The gov't wanting to keep the masses down to the lowest common denominator? What ever gave you that idea?
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I cried many times during FF IX...ahh FF I, still my all time favorite :)
I remember playing Resident Evil II. I was living off-campus, all my friends were out. I was creaped out, kept turning around and looking behind me.
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I did not say mass killing of people - i said wipe out the terrorists. There are (without a doubt) many known terrorists out there. They and their supports need to be killed. These groups are a bit beyond resonable. And yes I do believe that a way to help some of the middle eastern nations is to give them a reason to care enough so they will not want to help hide terrorists. However, it is not going to be as easy as giving someone a nice home, car, bank roll, job, medical care and education. The current power structures who control these terroristic groups do not exactly care what our possible solutions might be. They want to remain in power, and to do so, they will prevent their own people from gaining these benefits -- all under the guise that Western capitalism is the root of all evil, bleh bleh bleh.... -A
Please back your findings that Israel is a despot nation. -A
It's about time someone asked SCO "Stop crying like a spoiled brat and tell us what your exact complaint is" -A
The middle east will continue to be a battle ground until the terrorists are wiped out. The lack of the middle east being able to sell oil (which even if we switched over totally to electric cars today probably won't kick in for another 10-15 years)will just mean that the elite in the middle eastern oil producing countries become poorer though they would still be super rich. -A
No it was this month :)
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I must have missed part of the message. My appologies. :)
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I agree that what is going on is wrong. The company that should be sued is the company who purchased the advertisement with (presumably) knowledge that "AXA" is their competitor and not (for example) one of their products. I think, however, that Google should be held to some form of standards for its paid advertisers. I think Google (and other advertisers) should check up on their paying subscribers. If these guys are turning a profit, they have at least some responsibility instead of using a fully automated "faultless" system. -A
Whats the point of that statement? I am sure both programs have had their share of files that either do not open properly or do not open at all. -A
THe company i work for utilizes software assurance. We pay an upfront fee and get almost all our MS software (server side and desktop side). We probably save 50% off the retail value. We are a company of roughly 110 people. Big pricedifference from what you have listed. All our software is the pro edition. -A
And in part two of your statement you list the huge problem with Open Office. Maybe in someone's personal life they can deal with the inconsistencies of a file not opening correctly, but in an enterprise situation (such as the one I am in) we cannot afford this. I am talking about documents that are hundreds of pages long that will be converted to PDF. Each of our document writers have office 97 and office XP on their machines for their various projects. It is expensive either way, and each company needs to look at the pro's and con's of using MS Office, Open office, or any other program you can think of. -A