Consumer-level printers get replaced very frequently.
Because they were designed that way! Once, we sent our Samsung for repair. The repairman told us that they got broken very frequently, and he recommended us to get an HP instead. So we went to the store, and the salesman told us that HP printers got broken very frequently. He recommended us to get a Samsung instead!:(
SUUUUUURE.... improving a 3/10 game to 10/10 in only a month. I got an idea. Let's hire THESE guys for Microsoft and see what miracles they can do with Vista in only 30 days.
Zuck's still waiting for that elusive first patent to be issued, but take a gander at the Facebook founder's patent application for [ software idea ] NEXT!!!
You hit the nail on the head. The problem is not the kid's intelligence. The problem is the lack of attention by his/her parents. Teachers are barking at the wrong tree.
How many times does the average user rewatch a favorite clip in youtube instead of F***ING DOWNLOADING IT TO HIS COMPUTER? Can anyone explain to me why in their minds they don't let users save their favorite clips to their harddrives? They ALREADY DOWNLOAD THEM everytime they play!
And yet, they keep the best part for themselves. I would gladly accept that if they released some of their code regularly - but they don't. In other words, they keep using the same closed-source model that we're trying to get rid of in the first place.
If Crossover donated their SOURCE CODE to Wine instead of money, the Wine project would benefit much more.
And the proof is that, right now, everybody is downloading Firefox 3 which is a 100% open source (or should I say Free Software?) product. Do we see the developers asking for donations? Heck, they're benefiting from Google ads already, and they're running a f***ing corporation!
Do we see that in Wine? No. You think they're helping, but they're only pushing Wine behind. They'll always be ahead, and in the meantime, people still don't move to Linux because they'd have to pay for what they ALREADY HAVE with Windows! The money they contribute to the Wine project is in my eyes nothing but bribery money. OK you stop asking us for the source code, and we'll give you these dollars so you can keep trying to improve your inferior product.
or at least a hint, so we can understand better the reality we live in. It could as well be SCO or some mediocre company - in that case, it would be meaningless. But what if it was Yahoo! or Microsoft?
Not to discredit the wine developers. reverse engineering WTF is like mapping the human genome. It's complicated, and a whole lot of windows moments. There, fixed it for ya.
Sad to say, but probably because
7.0.0 CrossOver Linux - June 17, 2008
* New application support:
o Office 2007 (Including Word, Excel, Powerpoint, and limited Outlook) I'll still be buying a copy though. I can only say one thing regarding Crossover:
Small guys won't be crushed out of business, if they choose a NON-PREHISTORIC BUSINESS MODEL.
Like software customization. Customize free open source software, and rent your worktime instead of selling a product. As long as companies want changes, you'll have a job.
OK, you want to sell music? Make it good, and sell it cheap!!! Just like Radiohead did with In Rainbows(TM). They gave the music for free, higher quality mp3 costed a bit more, and then they sold the limited editions which costed a hundred bucks. Wanna know how much the guys earned? Around a f***ing million dollars. Which is WAY MUCH MORE than if they had sold their souls to the RIAA.
You want to sell books? Sell e-books. And sell them cheap. If they're good, you'll have people from all the world buying them from your online store.
You want to sell games? Give them away and get the profit from game add-ons or a subscription service (it worked for Blizzard. But guess what, if the game creation software you're using is free, your profit will be much greater).
You want to sell movies? Well, you have bad luck because you have to invest thousands of dollars on software because there are no decent Open Source Video Editors that can rival the commercial ones. So what do you do? Push it on the moviegoers with overpriced popcorn and sodas. However, if you make a good movie, the people will tolerate that sh** because the movie's worth it. No matter how much movie piracy there is, you recover all of your investment within the first week in the theaters.
But you could earn even more if you began distributing the movies on DVDs, cheap, and without copy protection of any kind.
If the software and material to make movies becomes easily accessible, then the end product will cost you less to make and you won't have to whine because people keep sharing your precious software, movies, music or games.
IANAB (I am not a biologist), but I think that when scientists talk about "life coming from space" they mean "complex carbon compounds that could, given the circumstances, combine into self-replicating structures that would, some time later, become living organisms". In other words, the secret ingredient needed for life to appear on Earth.
But thinking "ZOMG there were living cells in the meteorite!" is just crossing the line.
This is the lesson here. Don't contribute to projects that claim ownership of your code as a condition of contributing. Fork the project first.
Project Mayo used this model... MySQL used this model... QT used this model...
And here we are. ...complaining about their greedy license change decisions. Changing mySQL from LGPL to GPL and then making small businesses pay several thousands of dollars to be able to use even the mySQL client? COME ON!
MySQL, QT and DivX networks are *NO* better than Nokia. I don't care if MySQL never went commercial, it was much better as LGPL. Now everybody else is considering going to PostgreSQL.
Compare with wxWidgets. It may not be as popular in the Linux area, but a lot of Windows developers use it.
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Consumer-level printers get replaced very frequently.
Because they were designed that way! Once, we sent our Samsung for repair. The repairman told us that they got broken very frequently, and he recommended us to get an HP instead. So we went to the store, and the salesman told us that HP printers got broken very frequently. He recommended us to get a Samsung instead!SUUUUUURE.... improving a 3/10 game to 10/10 in only a month. I got an idea. Let's hire THESE guys for Microsoft and see what miracles they can do with Vista in only 30 days.
Yes, their competitors made mistakes. So did Microsoft.
Microsoft Bob.
And by Etc., you must mean VistaMicrosoft Blackbird.
Etc.
Any volunteers? :)
1. That site will sooner or later be indexed by Google, misleading unwary googlers to the fake site.
2. More hits, more ad revenue.
3. Profit!!
Hopefully, Wikipedia's GFDL license will make possible to have this website banned.
You're right... because the "intruder" does not take ANY PROPERTY AWAY from the wifi "provider/victim".
The case of wifi is very particular because the user pays a FIXED FEE. Not even plugging your tv on your neighbor's house would be equivalent.
You hit the nail on the head. The problem is not the kid's intelligence. The problem is the lack of attention by his/her parents. Teachers are barking at the wrong tree.
"June 17, 2028. Firefox 2.9.948 released. Soon we'll go to 3.0 RC1!"
And why am I suddenly reminded of WINE?
As opposed to Internet explorer, which comes PREINSTALLED BY DEFAULT and is filled with tons of bugs, too?
How many times does the average user rewatch a favorite clip in youtube instead of F***ING DOWNLOADING IT TO HIS COMPUTER? Can anyone explain to me why in their minds they don't let users save their favorite clips to their harddrives? They ALREADY DOWNLOAD THEM everytime they play!
Thanks for clarifying. I guess I was wrong on this one.
And yet, they keep the best part for themselves. I would gladly accept that if they released some of their code regularly - but they don't. In other words, they keep using the same closed-source model that we're trying to get rid of in the first place.
If Crossover donated their SOURCE CODE to Wine instead of money, the Wine project would benefit much more.
And the proof is that, right now, everybody is downloading Firefox 3 which is a 100% open source (or should I say Free Software?) product. Do we see the developers asking for donations? Heck, they're benefiting from Google ads already, and they're running a f***ing corporation!
Do we see that in Wine? No. You think they're helping, but they're only pushing Wine behind. They'll always be ahead, and in the meantime, people still don't move to Linux because they'd have to pay for what they ALREADY HAVE with Windows! The money they contribute to the Wine project is in my eyes nothing but bribery money. OK you stop asking us for the source code, and we'll give you these dollars so you can keep trying to improve your inferior product.
or at least a hint, so we can understand better the reality we live in. It could as well be SCO or some mediocre company - in that case, it would be meaningless. But what if it was Yahoo! or Microsoft?
* New application support:
o Office 2007 (Including Word, Excel, Powerpoint, and limited Outlook) I'll still be buying a copy though. I can only say one thing regarding Crossover:
Greedy bastards.
And we'll be able to shut down government websites because they cause us harm. Right? .... RIGHT??
Welcome to Microsoft Windows! Where any user is a super user!
Now what we need is a Freedom of Presidential Information Act.
Small guys won't be crushed out of business, if they choose a NON-PREHISTORIC BUSINESS MODEL.
Like software customization. Customize free open source software, and rent your worktime instead of selling a product. As long as companies want changes, you'll have a job.
OK, you want to sell music? Make it good, and sell it cheap!!! Just like Radiohead did with In Rainbows(TM). They gave the music for free, higher quality mp3 costed a bit more, and then they sold the limited editions which costed a hundred bucks. Wanna know how much the guys earned? Around a f***ing million dollars. Which is WAY MUCH MORE than if they had sold their souls to the RIAA.
You want to sell books? Sell e-books. And sell them cheap. If they're good, you'll have people from all the world buying them from your online store.
You want to sell games? Give them away and get the profit from game add-ons or a subscription service (it worked for Blizzard. But guess what, if the game creation software you're using is free, your profit will be much greater).
You want to sell movies? Well, you have bad luck because you have to invest thousands of dollars on software because there are no decent Open Source Video Editors that can rival the commercial ones. So what do you do? Push it on the moviegoers with overpriced popcorn and sodas. However, if you make a good movie, the people will tolerate that sh** because the movie's worth it. No matter how much movie piracy there is, you recover all of your investment within the first week in the theaters.
But you could earn even more if you began distributing the movies on DVDs, cheap, and without copy protection of any kind.
If the software and material to make movies becomes easily accessible, then the end product will cost you less to make and you won't have to whine because people keep sharing your precious software, movies, music or games.
IANAB (I am not a biologist), but I think that when scientists talk about "life coming from space" they mean "complex carbon compounds that could, given the circumstances, combine into self-replicating structures that would, some time later, become living organisms". In other words, the secret ingredient needed for life to appear on Earth.
But thinking "ZOMG there were living cells in the meteorite!" is just crossing the line.
Project Mayo used this model...
MySQL used this model...
QT used this model...
And here we are. ...complaining about their greedy license change decisions. Changing mySQL from LGPL to GPL and then making small businesses pay several thousands of dollars to be able to use even the mySQL client? COME ON!
MySQL, QT and DivX networks are *NO* better than Nokia. I don't care if MySQL never went commercial, it was much better as LGPL. Now everybody else is considering going to PostgreSQL.
Compare with wxWidgets. It may not be as popular in the Linux area, but a lot of Windows developers use it.
I think the point is that the buyers DON'T KNOW it's pirated.