Maybe the demand is not manufactured and not natural. This is especially true in movies where demand is created by marketing before the product is even known by anybody.
Anyway in the end it's all about entertainment. If nobody made movies people would entertain themselves in other ways. Maybe theater would make a come back, maybe people would read more, maybe they would just go out in the park and play more.
People have found ways to amuse themselves for thousands of years without movies and they would do it again if movies went away.
BTW I don't believe movies would go away. They would be made cheaper and without paying ben affleck 20 million dollars.
You can do the same thing with macs if you want. As a bonus you can remote boot all the macs saving you thousands of man hours of maintenance and administration over the lifetime of your machine.
Add to that the cost of virus protection, desktop firewalls, SMS server, exchange, sql server etc and you win big in the network space.
Can't help you about the software. If you choose software that only runs on windows then you have married your software vendor and he can bend you over when he wants.
Linux is supposed to suck. It has no right being as good as it it.
It's a volunteer effort and it doesn't cost you anything. It should suck Waaaaay worse then windows. And yet in many respects it's better then windows or the mac.
" So when are you going to start killing Americans?"
Me? No our enemies have already started killing americans. 9/11 was the first step in a millenium war against americans by everybody who hates us (which is pretty much everybody).
"That is the only right answer, isn't it?"
No we could try being nice and helping people. We could try to recognize the sovereignty and dignity of dark people. Maybe we should try that before killing americans.
"Come on, let's get the united armies of Europe over here, invade and start cleaning the world of the scourge of "Americans". Come on, let see some action behind those words."
Nope we spend more on the military then all the rest of the world combined. It would be foolish for them to try and invade us militariliy.
Having said that here are a few suggestions for peoples of the world who want to harm americans.
1) Terrorism. You don't need an army just a handful of dedicated jihadists. Today with chemical weapons being so easy to manufacture and move they are ideal weapons. Biological weapons although harder to make would also be ideal weaponry to use against the US. Subways, big cities are ideal targets. You could also try to poison water supplies too.
2) Economic. Boycott all american products and brands. Until you destroy the economy of the United States it will continue to dominate and rape you whenever it wants to. A great way to do this would be to inject a few hundred heads of cattle with mad cow disease or some highly contagious livestock disease. This will collapse the economy of the west. You can also poison crops (especially wheat and corn) and destroy the economy of the midwest. Similarly you can attack crucial infrastructure such as bridges and tunnels. There are not that many bridges that span the mississipi and every one you knock out will cost a tens of millions in economic damage.
3) Attacks against US posts overseas. Specifically most listening posts can be attacked with mortars and other types of "dumb" weapons.
4) Attacks against american businesses overseas. These are even "softer". Once american companies are forced to invest millions in added security they will lose their economic advantage.
5) Attacks against americans overseas. Tourists, businesmen, govt officials etc. We kill civillians all the time so don't feel like they are not legitamate targets.
So there. It's war but without an army. A new kind of war where you get to kill and hurt americans without having to mount an army invade.
The parent of this post is right. Unless you are willing to wage war, WE WILL COME AND KILL YOU!. Sitting on your ass and thinking that you are not next is not an option.
You didn't give a shit about saddam for the last 20 years. You don't give a shit about "bullshit like saddam" right now all over the world.
When is the US going to invade north korea, israel, russia, china, most of africa, cuba, nepal, east timor, pakistan, egypt etc?
It's not. Why? Well some of them might fight back, others have no oil.
BTW saddam didn't gas his own people. He gassed the kurds (which are not his own people) with the chemical weapons we gave him. We also supplied him with the intelligence needed to gas not only kurds but the iranians too. Stop being sanctimonious and accept your part of the responsiblity for horrific murder of tens of thousands of people.
Be a man and say "I as a citizen of the US indirectly helped Saddam hussein kill and torture people for decades because he was a useful tool for me, and to accomplish some objectives I felt were in my best interest". Follow that by saying "I as an American am the most important person on the planet, I am willing to kill, torture, and support killers and torturers to satisfy my needs and objectives. My interests lie above any other human beings or animals and plants for that matter."
Get that off your chest and then lets talk about your righteous indignation.
SCO is not going to run out of money. MS has given them 12 million dollars and arrainged for another 50 or so from baystar. Sun chipped in 9.x million too.
So far both sun and MS have gotten their money's worth from the deal. Lots of FUD, doubts raised about linux adoption etc.
There is no reason to think MS will stop there. If SCO starts to run out MS will find a way to pour some more money in. They have already signed some contracts with other canopy companies and some of that money will end up in the SCO legal warchest sooner or later.
This has been a great negtive advertising campaign for MS and it only cost them 12 million dollars.
If company A has a PHP who makes decisions based on silly things like "why can't one thing do eveything" and company B has a PHP that can understand complexity then company A will get it's butt kicked by company B.
If you work for company A I suggest you try and get a job at company B. If you own stock in company A then I suggest you sell that stock.
Companies run by idiots tend not to be pleasant places to work and tend to have stocks that suffer.
I don't know where you got your humax but best buy has them for 500 (100 rebate). I have seen them on the web for as little as 350 after rebate but never for 200 after rebate.
So 350 300 114
and you are looking at over 750.
Also the humax is known for it's poor quality video. So you pay 750. Still cheaper to make your own.
Look man even the hassidic jews live nothing like the jews of the old testament did. On the other hand the vast majority of the mongols live almost exactly like their ancenstors lived.
What you don't seem to get is that even the hassic sect of the jews has changed it's culture. They no longer burn red heffers when they see naked women. They no longer kill homosexuals.
But hey don't let plain and simple facts get in the way of your preconceived notion of how the hebrews are the oldest surviving culture and how every other culture that's actually olders then the hebrews is somehow different but the hebrews are exactly the same.
"Your second statement wasn't a sentence; I don't understand what you are saying."
Simple. The hebrews of today bear little resembelence to the hebrews of 4000 year ago. In fact the mongols of today live pretty much like the mongols of 4000 years ago but hebrews of today eat pizza and watch porn.
The chinese, japanese, mongols, hindus, turks, arabs, all have a longer history then the hebrews do.
The problem is that in government and many large organizations you can't willy nilly fire and hire people. So if you got a crappy programmer who is two years from retirement and pretty much fucks up anything he touches you can't fire him and replace him with somebody who has a clue.
Coaches win when owners are willing to pay for top talent. that's pretty much it in a nutshell in the IT world too.
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Maybe the demand is not manufactured and not natural. This is especially true in movies where demand is created by marketing before the product is even known by anybody.
Anyway in the end it's all about entertainment. If nobody made movies people would entertain themselves in other ways. Maybe theater would make a come back, maybe people would read more, maybe they would just go out in the park and play more.
People have found ways to amuse themselves for thousands of years without movies and they would do it again if movies went away.
BTW I don't believe movies would go away. They would be made cheaper and without paying ben affleck 20 million dollars.
You can do the same thing with macs if you want. As a bonus you can remote boot all the macs saving you thousands of man hours of maintenance and administration over the lifetime of your machine.
Add to that the cost of virus protection, desktop firewalls, SMS server, exchange, sql server etc and you win big in the network space.
Can't help you about the software. If you choose software that only runs on windows then you have married your software vendor and he can bend you over when he wants.
I am only half kidding here but.
Linux is supposed to suck. It has no right being as good as it it.
It's a volunteer effort and it doesn't cost you anything. It should suck Waaaaay worse then windows. And yet in many respects it's better then windows or the mac.
That maybe explains the home market but what about business?
What "enterprise business apps" are you talking about? Office runs on the mac and that's 99.9999999% of the "enterprise business apps"
Oh and last I checked there were games for the mac too.
" So when are you going to start killing Americans?"
Me? No our enemies have already started killing americans. 9/11 was the first step in a millenium war against americans by everybody who hates us (which is pretty much everybody).
"That is the only right answer, isn't it?"
No we could try being nice and helping people. We could try to recognize the sovereignty and dignity of dark people. Maybe we should try that before killing americans.
"Come on, let's get the united armies of Europe over here, invade and start cleaning the world of the scourge of "Americans". Come on, let see some action behind those words."
Nope we spend more on the military then all the rest of the world combined. It would be foolish for them to try and invade us militariliy.
Having said that here are a few suggestions for peoples of the world who want to harm americans.
1) Terrorism. You don't need an army just a handful of dedicated jihadists. Today with chemical weapons being so easy to manufacture and move they are ideal weapons. Biological weapons although harder to make would also be ideal weaponry to use against the US. Subways, big cities are ideal targets. You could also try to poison water supplies too.
2) Economic. Boycott all american products and brands. Until you destroy the economy of the United States it will continue to dominate and rape you whenever it wants to. A great way to do this would be to inject a few hundred heads of cattle with mad cow disease or some highly contagious livestock disease. This will collapse the economy of the west. You can also poison crops (especially wheat and corn) and destroy the economy of the midwest. Similarly you can attack crucial infrastructure such as bridges and tunnels. There are not that many bridges that span the mississipi and every one you knock out will cost a tens of millions in economic damage.
3) Attacks against US posts overseas. Specifically most listening posts can be attacked with mortars and other types of "dumb" weapons.
4) Attacks against american businesses overseas. These are even "softer". Once american companies are forced to invest millions in added security they will lose their economic advantage.
5) Attacks against americans overseas. Tourists, businesmen, govt officials etc. We kill civillians all the time so don't feel like they are not legitamate targets.
So there. It's war but without an army. A new kind of war where you get to kill and hurt americans without having to mount an army invade.
The parent of this post is right. Unless you are willing to wage war, WE WILL COME AND KILL YOU!. Sitting on your ass and thinking that you are not next is not an option.
You didn't give a shit about saddam for the last 20 years. You don't give a shit about "bullshit like saddam" right now all over the world.
When is the US going to invade north korea, israel, russia, china, most of africa, cuba, nepal, east timor, pakistan, egypt etc?
It's not. Why? Well some of them might fight back, others have no oil.
BTW saddam didn't gas his own people. He gassed the kurds (which are not his own people) with the chemical weapons we gave him. We also supplied him with the intelligence needed to gas not only kurds but the iranians too. Stop being sanctimonious and accept your part of the responsiblity for horrific murder of tens of thousands of people.
Be a man and say "I as a citizen of the US indirectly helped Saddam hussein kill and torture people for decades because he was a useful tool for me, and to accomplish some objectives I felt were in my best interest". Follow that by saying "I as an American am the most important person on the planet, I am willing to kill, torture, and support killers and torturers to satisfy my needs and objectives. My interests lie above any other human beings or animals and plants for that matter."
Get that off your chest and then lets talk about your righteous indignation.
Amen.
I still haven't found that page that says "fill the first page with lots of adds and information I don't care about" in my UI design book.
So wh is the author of that page? Apparently he has a bone to pick with ESR.
Once they realized they were duped by MS and SCO.
They have been selling that stock like crazy at around $4.00 though. God only knows how much they lost.
Not that I feel sorry for them, that's what you get when you partner with MS. They should know that by now.
Ethics? Morals? Good citizenship?
Nah not at microsoft.
SCO is not going to run out of money. MS has given them 12 million dollars and arrainged for another 50 or so from baystar. Sun chipped in 9.x million too.
So far both sun and MS have gotten their money's worth from the deal. Lots of FUD, doubts raised about linux adoption etc.
There is no reason to think MS will stop there. If SCO starts to run out MS will find a way to pour some more money in. They have already signed some contracts with other canopy companies and some of that money will end up in the SCO legal warchest sooner or later.
This has been a great negtive advertising campaign for MS and it only cost them 12 million dollars.
Having used the server I would not really reccomend it.
I still think you are better off with a freebsd server (or netbsd if you want to use the mac mini).
If company A has a PHP who makes decisions based on silly things like "why can't one thing do eveything" and company B has a PHP that can understand complexity then company A will get it's butt kicked by company B.
If you work for company A I suggest you try and get a job at company B. If you own stock in company A then I suggest you sell that stock.
Companies run by idiots tend not to be pleasant places to work and tend to have stocks that suffer.
I don't know where you got your humax but best buy has them for 500 (100 rebate). I have seen them on the web for as little as 350 after rebate but never for 200 after rebate.
So
350
300
114
and you are looking at over 750.
Also the humax is known for it's poor quality video. So you pay 750. Still cheaper to make your own.
"Last I checked 0.5% is still greater than 0%,"
Look man even the hassidic jews live nothing like the jews of the old testament did. On the other hand the vast majority of the mongols live almost exactly like their ancenstors lived.
What you don't seem to get is that even the hassic sect of the jews has changed it's culture. They no longer burn red heffers when they see naked women. They no longer kill homosexuals.
But hey don't let plain and simple facts get in the way of your preconceived notion of how the hebrews are the oldest surviving culture and how every other culture that's actually olders then the hebrews is somehow different but the hebrews are exactly the same.
People who disagree with you should not be able to speak up.
Microsoft has sued lindows, Mike Rowe, spammers, cybersquatters, and many other people for other forms of intellectual property.
Both Bill gates and Steve Ballmer have said they intend to sue people who violate their patents.
If Gates and Ballmer have said they intend to sue then I think it's a safe bet they will.
Yes we should all just shut up and sit down. Let's leave the trash talking to Ballmer, Gates, McBride, McNealy and other corporate bigwigs.
"Except for the Hassidic, or "orthodox", Jews. Many of them won't even make eye-contact with Gentiles."
.5% and point to them as an example of how the hebrew culture has stayed the the same for 4000 years.
Aaah yes, bring out the
So tell me do the hassidic jews burn red heffers if they catch a glimse of a naked woman? Of course not. That's because even the ultra orhodox
Again the japanese, mongols, chinese, hindus, arabs, turks, aztecs, mayans, eskimos, ainu all have a longer continious history then the hebrews.
Even a broken watch is right twice a day.
A tivo does not come with a dvd burner or a large hard disk.
If you get a PVR with a dvd burner, a large hard disk and a lifetime subscription expect to pay close to a grand.
"But that won't sustain the company unfortunately."
...
Open source the code
sell boxes and service
profit!!
"Your second statement wasn't a sentence; I don't understand what you are saying."
Simple. The hebrews of today bear little resembelence to the hebrews of 4000 year ago. In fact the mongols of today live pretty much like the mongols of 4000 years ago but hebrews of today eat pizza and watch porn.
The chinese, japanese, mongols, hindus, turks, arabs, all have a longer history then the hebrews do.
The problem is that in government and many large organizations you can't willy nilly fire and hire people. So if you got a crappy programmer who is two years from retirement and pretty much fucks up anything he touches you can't fire him and replace him with somebody who has a clue.
Coaches win when owners are willing to pay for top talent. that's pretty much it in a nutshell in the IT world too.