But airplanes have a practical use (getting people from one location on the ground to another in a relatively small amount of time). A space elevator, or flights into space for that matter, is pretty much just a tourist attraction.
But you probably only say this because you (probably) have a dogmatic view about the benefits of open source and the evils of Microsoft, whereas if you were Microsoft, you would have never developed this viewpoint because:
A) You have enough money to not give a shit.
B) You wouldn't hate yourself, for any reason.
But aren't the transistors on a CPU considerably smaller? And don't CPU production facilities cost consiberably more than those for RAM chips? Notice the "don't" and the question marks.
That's why I said it was OEM. And I'm not saying that Windows XP is cheap by any stretch of the imagination, or even viable to buy WITH hardware, just that it is less than the $300 the grandparent made it out to be.
$300 for XP? How ya figure?
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?desc ription=37-102-153&depa=0
That's OEM, but that's how you buy this machine no? $150
Party one didn't have the right to steal the software, but did anyway. Party two didn't have the right to erase party one's home directory but did it anyway. Neither are in the right.
I doubt a group making and giving away video game remixes would pay for an ad on Slashdot. And besides, computers have been around for a while, but you probably won't be complaining when they anounce the next 128-bit Ultra-Super-Duper-Amanamegatron CPU.
Now what would be wrong with this? It's not as if any of Lego's products are much more than action figures at this point. Sets full of bizarre one-use pieces and simple, mindless instructions make Legos as intellectually stimulating as Pet Rocks. Just get your kid a knife and some sticks.
You are not creating data out of thin air... it is being created based on preexisting data, by an (usually) expertly designed procedure. As to whether or not it is meaningful in the long run, I can attest to the meaningfulness of almost all still images and moving images (how about DVD's played at any high desktop resolution) that I have seen expanded.
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I think the grandparent got irony right. Here's a better definition: http://m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary& va=irony&x=0&y=0
But airplanes have a practical use (getting people from one location on the ground to another in a relatively small amount of time). A space elevator, or flights into space for that matter, is pretty much just a tourist attraction.
But you probably only say this because you (probably) have a dogmatic view about the benefits of open source and the evils of Microsoft, whereas if you were Microsoft, you would have never developed this viewpoint because: A) You have enough money to not give a shit. B) You wouldn't hate yourself, for any reason.
I think it's about time for anyone with a link in their sig to a pyramid scheme to get modded down without mercy.
Pleasing consumers = more money for them. So yes to the latter. On a side note, Final Fantasy VII was the reason I play games.
""Ubuntu" is an ancient African word" Uhhh. Any particular part of Africa? Does the entire continent speak one language or what?
But aren't the transistors on a CPU considerably smaller? And don't CPU production facilities cost consiberably more than those for RAM chips? Notice the "don't" and the question marks.
What do you expect him to say? "Uhhh... Spielburg is making WotW too? Well schucks, that's it for me (shoots self through forehead)."
That's why I said it was OEM. And I'm not saying that Windows XP is cheap by any stretch of the imagination, or even viable to buy WITH hardware, just that it is less than the $300 the grandparent made it out to be.
$300 for XP? How ya figure? http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?desc ription=37-102-153&depa=0
That's OEM, but that's how you buy this machine no? $150
Party one didn't have the right to steal the software, but did anyway. Party two didn't have the right to erase party one's home directory but did it anyway. Neither are in the right.
You failed to grasp the point of my decidedly unsubtle question.
How come I have no idea who the Libertarians are?
What? They really shafted the ruins music (the same music used for Magmoor Caverns in Prime). Disappointing.
I doubt a group making and giving away video game remixes would pay for an ad on Slashdot. And besides, computers have been around for a while, but you probably won't be complaining when they anounce the next 128-bit Ultra-Super-Duper-Amanamegatron CPU.
Now what would be wrong with this? It's not as if any of Lego's products are much more than action figures at this point. Sets full of bizarre one-use pieces and simple, mindless instructions make Legos as intellectually stimulating as Pet Rocks. Just get your kid a knife and some sticks.
It's perfectly fair. I just won't buy from them.
You are not creating data out of thin air... it is being created based on preexisting data, by an (usually) expertly designed procedure. As to whether or not it is meaningful in the long run, I can attest to the meaningfulness of almost all still images and moving images (how about DVD's played at any high desktop resolution) that I have seen expanded.