It's an auction marketplace, for crying out loud. "eBay" doesn't sell product. Comparison with Sears is apples & mushrooms.
I'm not so sure, since apples & mushrooms are both delicous foods that cater to different tastes. I'd say it is closer to a comparison between an apple catalog where you buy apples directly from a retailer and and an apple... auction... web site... where you buy from someone else... and it's called "eBay". Other than that, really good point!
"The thing with the other 'distros' is it takes a system administrator to set something up," Mr. Ho explained. "We're trying to simplify things so a regular user can pretty much do everything -- and we're trying to make it as user friendly as Windows."
So they're going for a traditional win95 security model, I guess.
I meant to say that 1 LOC == 50 VWs which I guess is more ridiculous than 50,000 now I think about it. I don't really know how an LOC is sized in volume or mass. A single ISO VW unit is, of course, a Beetle.
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It's an auction marketplace, for crying out loud. "eBay" doesn't sell product. Comparison with Sears is apples & mushrooms.
I'm not so sure, since apples & mushrooms are both delicous foods that cater to different tastes. I'd say it is closer to a comparison between an apple catalog where you buy apples directly from a retailer and and an apple... auction... web site... where you buy from someone else... and it's called "eBay". Other than that, really good point!
From TFA:
"The thing with the other 'distros' is it takes a system administrator to set something up," Mr. Ho explained. "We're trying to simplify things so a regular user can pretty much do everything -- and we're trying to make it as user friendly as Windows."
So they're going for a traditional win95 security model, I guess.
I meant to say that 1 LOC == 50 VWs which I guess is more ridiculous than 50,000 now I think about it. I don't really know how an LOC is sized in volume or mass. A single ISO VW unit is, of course, a Beetle.
I believe it is the size of approximately 1000 Libraries of Congress (LOC) or 50,000 Volkswagens.
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