That's the question that will keep them from ever nuking us. And frankly, I think the guys in the US military are the kind of guys that would fire nukes back out of spite.
"Defeat" isn't the point of nuclear deterrence. The point is that they know we could level every moderately large city in their respective countries if they were to launch nukes at us.
I don't know about "die", they were "inoperable" for a day. Didn't know how to deal with a leap year.
But anyway, mine has been chugging along ever since I bought it off Woot a few years ago. Just keeps going along like the little black mp3 brick that it is.
How many open source devs are getting paid to provide support? How many of them have the time to do that? I'm guessing next to none. The people getting paid are the people who set up dedicated support shops (like Redhat or Ubuntu) and ride on the backs of the devs.
"Support" doesn't mean "set up your system for you"...people seem to get that confused a lot. It means that if something isn't working as designed, they (the support people) will help you figure out why.
Hey, before you get all indignant, consider that perhaps they WANT some of these kids to break the protection, and by dubbing these netbooks as "unhackable", they guarantee that someone will try. Once it's cracked, they can fix it.
There is no such thing as "second sale" with digital media. With physical media, only one person can own the item at a time, and when you sell it, ownership is transferred. Digital media, on the other hand, can be copied so easily that ownership doesn't mean anything, and a person could "second sale" it over and over and over again. What's to stop them?
DRM is needed if you want to treat digital media like real property.
Because there are a few hundred other companies and thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of people who live in the area that benefit. That's why the state pays half.
They are "tax avoiding", not "tax evading". Everyone does it every year when they file their income taxes, and also when deciding how to make purchases to minimize sales tax. It's not bad, it's the system.
"This isn't a liberal tax and spend issue. This is an issue of a giant company guzzling state services (fire, water, police, increased road traffic, etc. etc. etc.) and letting the little guys pick up the tab."
Microsoft dumps all kinds of money in Washington State in taxes and in charity. Hell, there was an article not too long ago about how MS was dumping money into a bridge project that was partially funded by stimulus money. Washington doesn't get to tax a company's activities in another state. That'd be like if they tried to tax Washington Wal-marts for sales in other states. How your post got modded as interesting is beyond me...maybe interestingly dumb? Who knows.
Why are you pissed? I'm sure that you use every deduction, loophole, and credit you can think of when it comes to taxes. We all do. Why should MS do any different?
You're reading it wrong. He mean that damage he would have caused, had he caused any damage. As in, he would have caused the damage, had damage been done. If no damage had been done, he would not have caused it.
My university shuts down email accounts 6 months after you leave...I'd assume other schools do the same thing. Why would anyone use it for anything other than school related email?
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"IT" is not "vendor support". Thanks.
"Yeah but are you egotistical enough to do so?"
That's the question that will keep them from ever nuking us. And frankly, I think the guys in the US military are the kind of guys that would fire nukes back out of spite.
Well apparently that's not widely distributed information because I had not heard it before. So it's newsworthy to me.
"Defeat" isn't the point of nuclear deterrence. The point is that they know we could level every moderately large city in their respective countries if they were to launch nukes at us.
I don't know about "die", they were "inoperable" for a day. Didn't know how to deal with a leap year.
But anyway, mine has been chugging along ever since I bought it off Woot a few years ago. Just keeps going along like the little black mp3 brick that it is.
A good example of this is ActiveDirectory vs Samba+OpenLDAP.
How many open source devs are getting paid to provide support? How many of them have the time to do that? I'm guessing next to none. The people getting paid are the people who set up dedicated support shops (like Redhat or Ubuntu) and ride on the backs of the devs.
"Support" doesn't mean "set up your system for you"...people seem to get that confused a lot. It means that if something isn't working as designed, they (the support people) will help you figure out why.
Hey, before you get all indignant, consider that perhaps they WANT some of these kids to break the protection, and by dubbing these netbooks as "unhackable", they guarantee that someone will try. Once it's cracked, they can fix it.
"Google Maps, Google Talk and Gmail and so on require a license to distribute them."
How does one distribute an online service?
Not just the HD...the original Zune 30 (still sporting mine that I bought off Woot.com) is a GREAT mp3 player.
"If everybody would do it like them, and not give away the code, then nobody, including themselves, could get any free software anymore."
There's plenty of free software out there that I can't get the code for. What you mean is there would be no open software.
Because if you aren't giving away your music and videos for free, then it's like shooting up a mall with an automatic weapon...what?
"billions of corporate slaves would still buy it and sign up for the upgrades."
Which is why the company I work at (15k+ employees) is still using Office 2000/2003 and Windows 2000/XP on 99% of our workstations, right?
There is no such thing as "second sale" with digital media. With physical media, only one person can own the item at a time, and when you sell it, ownership is transferred. Digital media, on the other hand, can be copied so easily that ownership doesn't mean anything, and a person could "second sale" it over and over and over again. What's to stop them? DRM is needed if you want to treat digital media like real property.
Because there are a few hundred other companies and thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of people who live in the area that benefit. That's why the state pays half.
They are "tax avoiding", not "tax evading". Everyone does it every year when they file their income taxes, and also when deciding how to make purchases to minimize sales tax. It's not bad, it's the system.
No one cares if you understand why someone else would want something. Thanks.
Good point.
All those people who work for Microsoft aren't paying state taxes like every other Washintonian? Don't be dumb.
"This isn't a liberal tax and spend issue. This is an issue of a giant company guzzling state services (fire, water, police, increased road traffic, etc. etc. etc.) and letting the little guys pick up the tab."
Microsoft dumps all kinds of money in Washington State in taxes and in charity. Hell, there was an article not too long ago about how MS was dumping money into a bridge project that was partially funded by stimulus money. Washington doesn't get to tax a company's activities in another state. That'd be like if they tried to tax Washington Wal-marts for sales in other states. How your post got modded as interesting is beyond me...maybe interestingly dumb? Who knows.
Why are you pissed? I'm sure that you use every deduction, loophole, and credit you can think of when it comes to taxes. We all do. Why should MS do any different?
You're reading it wrong. He mean that damage he would have caused, had he caused any damage. As in, he would have caused the damage, had damage been done. If no damage had been done, he would not have caused it.
Ha ha ha....you actually think that Microsoft cares about innovation...that's cute.
Amen.
My university shuts down email accounts 6 months after you leave...I'd assume other schools do the same thing. Why would anyone use it for anything other than school related email?