a) They're a business. They have to make profit or their shareholders will leave in droves. If they make insane amounts of profit then all the better, there's nothing actually wrong with that. Just because you think there is some sort of cutoff point where a business should not make any profits doesn't mean that's a good idea or a workable idea. b) Having a monopoly on the desktop is not an issue. You can get a monopoly for many reasons (Microsoft's being a combination of paying off OEMs and compatibility with just about everything). However if you try to abuse your monopoly position, that is where the problem comes.
OK, so when Linux gets a feature that's been in Windows for years, everybody has to fawn over it and say how Linux is ready for the desktop etc. However, if Windows gets a feature (or hundred) thats been in OSX for years, everyone calls them out on copying features.
What exactly is wrong with trying to stay competitive in the market?
In fact now I think about it it, he says that Microsoft has cost the US multiples of their net revenue. Which is obvious; it's net revenue, i.e. their profit (about 12 billion according to Wikipedia). Given how much Microsoft software the US uses, it stands to reason that they would spend at least twice that...so basically, twitter is correct, but it's a specious and misleading claim.
I don't think he doesn't know how to use Windows/iTunes etc. I think he knows how to, but pretends it's really hard so he can post lots of FUD up about Microsoft, iTunes etc. (Because FUD's only bad when Microsoft spread it, clearly).
I didn't mean their annual revenue, which I already knew. I was asking twitter to back up his assertion that Microsoft has cost the US economy many times their annual revenue. Backing up assertions ain't one of twitter's strong points:)
In the wallet, of course. M$ is going to waste $6.2 billion promoting what's looking more and more like XP SP3, super digital restriction.
Three things:
1) If Microsoft didn't promote their flagship product, they would be fucking cretins of the first degree. You seem to think that just because you say so, they should just give up, if not actively say "Don't use Windows". 2) MS' operating profit is about 12.6 billion dollars. They're not going to spend almost half of their operating profit on promoting Vista. 3) I would like you to pay close attention to this page. Special attention should be paid to what a long page it is, and the number of notes at the bottom confirming it all.
While I won't directly pay for that, many will. Schools, government and everyone not bright enough to use free software will pay.
Or, alternatively, schools and governments will pay because Windows is a de-facto standard on the desktop, and is what just about everyone uses just about everywhere?
All of the above easily adds up to multiples of M$'s annual net revenue.
I know you were joking, but just yesterday for a laugh I went on the Wayback Machine's archive of BBC News...one of the first headlines was about Israel kicking the shit out of Lebanon...creepy if nothing else.
anywhere people bring laptops you hear that God Damned noise because M$ power management blows and because they make it hard to turn the spam off
a) Windows' power management is a shining beacon of awesomeness compared to Linux's, especially where laptops are concerned. b) Start > Control Panel > Sounds and Audio Devices > Sounds. Change the Sound Scheme to "No Sounds". Done. Not that hard, is it?
Fuck you, you owe me a new keyboard, this one's all wet, since my mouth decided to stop controlling the gin and tonic in it and start laughing instead.:D
It could have been that he had an arrangement which said "OK, we'll let you use our computers, so long as you give us some of the revenue from BASIC in return." Piracy would have fucked that up.
Note that this is merely my conjecture, I'm not Bill Gates so I've got no idea what actually went on:)
Ah yes, the Bill Gates letter. Gates complains that people aren't buying the product he has for sale and instead are copying it, meaning his financial investment is not being recouped; free software advocates claim this is greedy. I consider it common fucking sense.
To be honest, I find the idea of a game where you ruthlessly kill millions upon millions of innocent people with strategic nuclear weapons, no matter how abstracted and non-gory, far more repellent and sickening than any shit Rockstar Games has cranked out, ever.
Congrats, you got lucky. I had one Maxtor drive completely brick on me with no prior cause, and another simply failing to be recognised by the PC it was in, and preventing the IDE channels in any other PC from working when plugged in. I can't be alone in thinking that Maxtor drives, by and large, are heaps of shit.
It's inaccurate too. When I bought XP, Bill Gates' penis did not magically appear and start having sex with my bound, gagged and screaming wallet. Maybe twitter himself had some bad experiences in this vein.
For a while, IC24 (now Madasafish) operated a service where at weekends and evenings after 8, they'd let you call in completely free; no subscription, no call charges. Only downside was that it was sometimes hard to get a connection cos of the sheer volume of people connecting, and that it would knock you offline after 2 hours. Service was pretty quick if you could get connected though.
Any live and writable drive is going to get hosed if your little XP computer is 0wnzered by some dirt bag who wants to erase everything you have. In that case, you can say good bye to all the data on your network when they keylog your passwords, and on your external drive as soon as you plug it in.
Jesus, did Bill Gates fuck your daughter or something?
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a) They're a business. They have to make profit or their shareholders will leave in droves. If they make insane amounts of profit then all the better, there's nothing actually wrong with that. Just because you think there is some sort of cutoff point where a business should not make any profits doesn't mean that's a good idea or a workable idea.
b) Having a monopoly on the desktop is not an issue. You can get a monopoly for many reasons (Microsoft's being a combination of paying off OEMs and compatibility with just about everything). However if you try to abuse your monopoly position, that is where the problem comes.
OK, so when Linux gets a feature that's been in Windows for years, everybody has to fawn over it and say how Linux is ready for the desktop etc. However, if Windows gets a feature (or hundred) thats been in OSX for years, everyone calls them out on copying features.
What exactly is wrong with trying to stay competitive in the market?
In fact now I think about it it, he says that Microsoft has cost the US multiples of their net revenue. Which is obvious; it's net revenue, i.e. their profit (about 12 billion according to Wikipedia). Given how much Microsoft software the US uses, it stands to reason that they would spend at least twice that...so basically, twitter is correct, but it's a specious and misleading claim.
I don't think he doesn't know how to use Windows/iTunes etc. I think he knows how to, but pretends it's really hard so he can post lots of FUD up about Microsoft, iTunes etc. (Because FUD's only bad when Microsoft spread it, clearly).
I didn't mean their annual revenue, which I already knew. I was asking twitter to back up his assertion that Microsoft has cost the US economy many times their annual revenue. Backing up assertions ain't one of twitter's strong points :)
In the wallet, of course. M$ is going to waste $6.2 billion promoting what's looking more and more like XP SP3, super digital restriction.
Three things:
1) If Microsoft didn't promote their flagship product, they would be fucking cretins of the first degree. You seem to think that just because you say so, they should just give up, if not actively say "Don't use Windows".
2) MS' operating profit is about 12.6 billion dollars. They're not going to spend almost half of their operating profit on promoting Vista.
3) I would like you to pay close attention to this page. Special attention should be paid to what a long page it is, and the number of notes at the bottom confirming it all.
While I won't directly pay for that, many will. Schools, government and everyone not bright enough to use free software will pay.
Or, alternatively, schools and governments will pay because Windows is a de-facto standard on the desktop, and is what just about everyone uses just about everywhere?
All of the above easily adds up to multiples of M$'s annual net revenue.
$44billion? Cite your references please.
Looking for NPOV on Slashdot is like being straight and cruising gay bars for girls.
Depends if it really is your content, really. I doubt you could claim copyright over a downloaded movie someone else made, or an album.
I know you were joking, but just yesterday for a laugh I went on the Wayback Machine's archive of BBC News...one of the first headlines was about Israel kicking the shit out of Lebanon...creepy if nothing else.
anywhere people bring laptops you hear that God Damned noise because M$ power management blows and because they make it hard to turn the spam off
a) Windows' power management is a shining beacon of awesomeness compared to Linux's, especially where laptops are concerned.
b) Start > Control Panel > Sounds and Audio Devices > Sounds. Change the Sound Scheme to "No Sounds". Done. Not that hard, is it?
God you're an idiot, twitter.
Then you're far too mature for Slashdot.
Yeah...some Slashdotters are 12. :)
HAHAH!
:D
Fuck you, you owe me a new keyboard, this one's all wet, since my mouth decided to stop controlling the gin and tonic in it and start laughing instead.
It could have been that he had an arrangement which said "OK, we'll let you use our computers, so long as you give us some of the revenue from BASIC in return." Piracy would have fucked that up.
:)
Note that this is merely my conjecture, I'm not Bill Gates so I've got no idea what actually went on
Knowing Maxtor, smoking would probably be less harmful for his health.
Really, ask yourself, do you or anyone you know make most of their money writting non free code?
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I'd wager that a fair proportion of Slashdotters either work for such a company or know someone who does.
By the way, "writing" only has one T in it.
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Ah yes, the Bill Gates letter. Gates complains that people aren't buying the product he has for sale and instead are copying it, meaning his financial investment is not being recouped; free software advocates claim this is greedy. I consider it common fucking sense.
To be honest, I find the idea of a game where you ruthlessly kill millions upon millions of innocent people with strategic nuclear weapons, no matter how abstracted and non-gory, far more repellent and sickening than any shit Rockstar Games has cranked out, ever.
Congrats, you got lucky. I had one Maxtor drive completely brick on me with no prior cause, and another simply failing to be recognised by the PC it was in, and preventing the IDE channels in any other PC from working when plugged in. I can't be alone in thinking that Maxtor drives, by and large, are heaps of shit.
Congratulations; You were only a litre or so of water away from a Darwin Award.
I can control where my Wii goes perfectly. Don't need no fine tuning here.
:P)
(I've stooped to making a urine/Wii joke on Slashdot. This is truly the stuff of suicide notes.
It's inaccurate too. When I bought XP, Bill Gates' penis did not magically appear and start having sex with my bound, gagged and screaming wallet. Maybe twitter himself had some bad experiences in this vein.
And this, my friends, is why you shouldn't buy Maxtor. I've never had anything but trouble with Maxtor drives.
:)
Western Digital all the way for me
For a while, IC24 (now Madasafish) operated a service where at weekends and evenings after 8, they'd let you call in completely free; no subscription, no call charges. Only downside was that it was sometimes hard to get a connection cos of the sheer volume of people connecting, and that it would knock you offline after 2 hours. Service was pretty quick if you could get connected though.
By that measure, Windows is the standard OS...
Any live and writable drive is going to get hosed if your little XP computer is 0wnzered by some dirt bag who wants to erase everything you have. In that case, you can say good bye to all the data on your network when they keylog your passwords, and on your external drive as soon as you plug it in.
Jesus, did Bill Gates fuck your daughter or something?