It doesn't need RMS's self-righteous, "moralizing" sermons.
The GPL and the FSF are the direct result of an intellectual exercise to determine the best way to get to the end goal of freedom-to-modify code/Software. You may call that self-righteous and moralizing, I call it brilliant. RMS may seem a little too passionate for some, but that's because he is passionate, idealistic, and uncompromising in his beliefs. If you disagree with his beliefs, that fine. But saying, The FSF doesn't need him, bullocks I say. There is a "movement" available for those who disagree, talk with Bruce Perens.
I wanted to suggest everybody to stop using the term "GNU/Linux" and using "Linux" instead as a form of peaceful, non-confrontational protest against FSF's damage to Open Source enterprises.
Good Luck. Linux is GPL and uses GNU utilities. Almost all Linux Distros are GNU/Linux. Chicken and the egg.
* Richard M. Stallman, President
* Peter T. Brown, Executive Director
The Free Software Foundation has six people on its board of directors. They are:
* Geoffrey Knauth, Senior Software Engineer at SFA, Inc.
* Lawrence Lessig, Professor of Law at Stanford University
* Eben Moglen, Professor of Law and Legal History at Columbia University
* Henri Poole, Founder of CivicActions, a grassroots campaign technology consulting firm * Richard M. Stallman, Founder of FSF and the GNU Project and author of the GNU GPL
* Gerald J. Sussman, Professor of Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Maybe you should take some time out to read a few essays or listen to full presentations, instead of reacting to sound bits fleeting across the web, before making your own useless sound bits.
What's more important to define this is what exactly you mean by "desktop linux"
I mean a fully functional multi-purpose computing/entertainment/communication/creation device. For some people Windows XP fits this definition with the addition of a few software titles. For me and mine Linux fits this definition and fits it better and cheaper.
if you define "desktop linux" as being able to play native 3D games reliably, then desktop linux is almost entirely a hobbiest system still
I said fully right. What I don't expect is it to play every Windows DirectX10 game the day it comes out. Eventually, odds are good, unless it is a MS title, we'll get it running. Better still we convince the publishers that we BUY Linux Binaries, I bought UT2004 and Quake4 and Doom3. I'd buy more. Wine takes care of the rest.
The simple fact remains that other than installing a linux machine, not much more has become easier.
Spoken like someone who doesn't recall how truly difficult everything was not so long ago in linux. We've come a long way, really really fast. I find it better. It may not be perfect but niether are the alternatives, I trust the forward momentum in this lane. Not only that I get to help if I want.
Some people really do just like to turn on their machine and find it works. Windows offers that, and still will for some time over linux.
http://kanotix.com/ Just works, off the CD, I wonder if the Vista DVD will be like that. The laptop I refer to in the parent post runs it 24/7.
So to sum it up, Nvidia makes a Linux Desktop, ATi breaks it.
Out of the 4 Desktops and 1 laptop in my home, 2 dual-boot, 3 are full time Linux.(All Debian) All of them gamers.
With an NVidia Graphics card Linux is a viable desktop. For work, web and Leisure.
Free Software is not a hobby, it is a way of life.
I look forward to the money I will save and you will spend on Vista. I look forward to the knowledge I will gain and you will be ignorant of. I look forward to modifying my system and my code to my liking, while you look forward to being locked out, broken apps and slashed features, and unsolvable crashes. (lest I forget the required reboots and reinstalls)
Odd to think he didn't mention the Unreal series, which if you count Unreal, the Unreal expansion pack, Unreal 2, Unreal Tournament, Unreal Tournament 2003, Unreal Tournament 2004, and the up-coming Unreal Tournament 2006, has had more releases than Zelda or Final Fantasy in the past several years.
I begin by saying that I hate the whiner and the grammar nazi as much as you, but.....
Douglas Adams gets the nod from me for coining the phrase you are refering to. He really deserves to be quoted. so.... In context from Chapter 8.
The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a wholly remarkable book. It has been compiled and
recompiled many times over many years and under many different editorships. It contains contributio
from countless numbers of travellers and researchers.
The introduction begins like this: "Space," it says, "is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly
hugely mindboggingly big it is. I mean you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that'
just peanuts to space. Listen..." and so on.
The government is finally stepping in, I hope they unclog those damn tubes. It takes forever for my email to get through the internets.
I just the other day got, an internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday and I just got it yesterday. Why?
Because it got tangled up with all these things going on the internet commercially...
They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the internet. And again, the internet is not something you just dump something on. It's not a truck.
It's a series of tubes.
And if you don't understand those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and its going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material.
Haven't made it through the whole thing yet, but FTR: The business model of purchasing physical goods and services has
served DoD well in the past; but it falls short when applied to
software acquisition. By treating DoD-developed software code as a
physical good, DoD is limiting and restricting the ability of the
market to compete for the provision of new and innovative solutions
and capabilities. By enabling industry to leverage an open code
development model, DoD would provide the market incentives to
increase the agility and competitiveness of the industrial base.
Currently within DoD, there is no internal distribution policy or
mechanism for DoD developed and paid for software code. By not
enabling internal distribution, DoD creates an arbitrary scarcity of its
own software code, which increases the development and
maintenance costs of information technology across the
Department. Other negative consequences include lock-in to
obsolete proprietary technologies, the inability to extend existing
capabilities in months vs. years, and snarls of interoperability that
stem from the opacity and stove-piping of information systems.
Absolutely.
There are over 100,000 publicly available open source projects
available spanning most functional areas.4 Many of these projects
provide mature and robust solutions in their areas of focus. When
possible, OSS components should be leveraged rather than funding
the development of equivalent proprietary components for specific
programs.
Damn Skippy!.
Challenges
Culture and Process
The primary challenges to this transition will be cultural, not
technical. Over time, government acquisitions and development
processes have built a bureaucracy and rewards system that
encourages and supports the status quo. Careers are advanced
primarily on program size, not necessarily overall efficiency.
Furthermore, government contractors are measured by revenue;
government program managers are measured by the size of their
organization and their overall budget. The canonical government
contracting process creates high entry costs for small innovative
companies -- the established contractors attempt to control their
positions through proprietary implementations and interfaces. The
system is very good at protecting itself -- new approaches, such as
OTD, will have to endure legal, security, and process challenges.
The current infrastructure will attempt to delay change, claim they
are adapting by trying to assume control of the innovative process.
My Favorite Quote is in the DOD report. There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that
is an idea whose time has come.
-- Victor Hugo
All in All, I'd say the guy in charge of this report knows his stuff and I for one, welcome our new OSS-using DOD overlords.
To do a fair comparison I would like to see the Cost of the systems as set up.
To test the.Net stack, we ran Windows Server 2003 R2, SQL Server 2005 and SharePoint Portal Server 2003. Across the board, this configuration performed very well, with the top overall average throughput (by far) at 4.59M bps.
Quick check.....
$2,792.00 (Froogle Directron) Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise, 25 Clients
$5,489.18 (Froogle Non Academic) SQL Server 2005 Complete
$5,619.00 (MS Website Retail) SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Server License with 5 CALs
Hmmm, Could train a couple of Windows Admins with $11,000. Better yet just Hire a good Linux Admin.
To a large degree, we credit this strong showing to the high level of integration that exists among the components of this stack. While most of the open-source and Java systems are developed independently of each other, each of the.Net components is designed specifically to integrate and perform well together.
Even if the.Net stack had bombed convincingly in these tests, it would probably still maintain popularity in many companies.
Some people (PHBs) will never come around.
But its strong showing should give companies confidence that the.Net stack will handle most high-level enterprise needs.
For more than $12Grand it better blow away the Free Alternatives and configure itself and require zero admin.
I know I will get slammed for not using TCO but I don't believe those numbers at all. In my experience it takes the same amount of time for day to day maintenance. And when there is a problem (and there will be, no matter which one you choose) It costs me less time and therefore money to bring back up the Linux box.
Cost is not the only factor in a buying decision but is a factor, and if performance is arguably equal than it is a huge factor.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TANSTAAFL TANSTAAFL is an acronym for the adage "There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch", popularized by science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein in his 1966 novel The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, which discusses the problems caused by not considering the eventual outcome of an unbalanced economy.
Paraphrasing and quoting are not the same. If heinlein wanted to say shit he would have.
As a developer I'm appalled.
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After Midway retreated from the arcades in 2001, Atari Games found itself focusing exclusively on home releases. Apparently those didn't sell well enough, as on one cold day in February 2003, all of the studio's employees were, without warning, led off premises as the building was locked behind them - much to their collective confusion and dismay. It was not until later that employees were allowed to return for their personal effects. Thus ended the 31-year history of Atari - save the endless Midway compilations that place Atari Games productions front and center, as the shining gems of Midway's history.
They never let me go back and collect my personal belongings after escorting me out.
Seriously though, very sad. My 800XL still isn't the same since I told it it's parents had died.
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We hope and expect that millions of third-party developers around the world will build solutions using the Open XML file formats. Already, hundreds of thousands of developers are working with the XML capabilities of Microsoft Office. Any developer may use or join the OpenXMLDeveloper.org community to receive the latest information and participate in active code-sharing and experience-sharing opportunities.
Come join the covenant, Be one with the covenant. Or we Will Sue your ass.
They cover them too.
FTFA:Another cool piece of this is that it will also work in older versions of Office. This is because the tools leverage the Open XML support, and we're providing free updates to previous versions of Office that allow them to read and write Open XML. It's another great benefit of leveraging the Open XML formats for the tool.
I was employed at a PC repair shop a few years back.
We had this customer who was irate that his new computer was acting up and it was new I built it myself. No reason for it to be acting so strange. He brought it in we checked it out seemed fine.
He comes back complaining again. We replace the entire PC. He leaves happy for 2 days. Then he comes back demanding a refund.
We tell him if there is something wrong with the PC we will make it right. Leave it with us and we'll throw everything we got at it. He does. His wife comes in an hr later. "Can I see my husbands computer for a minute, I just need to check one thing.?" Sure come on back. She presses Shift Ctrl ScrollLock or something similar & up pops this EVIL unnoticable Screengrabber. She quickly scans through the last 3 days worth of pics. Instant message from her teen daughter, Web surfing of her hubby 3 pics a second. Gobbling up space & cycles. If she doesn't check it daily & dump it fills the harddrive with 1280x1024x32 Pics. I explain to her it is unnecessary to grab so many, 1 every couple of minutes is more than sufficient. She asks me to promise I won't tell her husband. I promise she tips me 50 bucks and promises to bring me a bottle of wine (her Idea).
Later that same day.
The owner (who has dealt with the husband only on more than one occassion since the sale.) checks in with me to see if I found the problem. I calmly explain the situation, and the promise. He asked me "Did she make you promise not to tell me?"
Obviously I can not and did not make that promise.
"Well then, I never promised her shit. But I did promise her husband I would find out what was up & fix it." Cue him Dialing.
Later that same day, Hubby comes in pays us for all our service (3 hrs on site. 3 trips to the shop) and tips me 50 bucks.
Still Later
She comes in like a rocket right passed the counter into the bench area Slams down a shiny bottle of wine & says thanks a fuckin lot.
My boss says thank you come again.
The husband still shops there service & purchase.
Moral of the story: If you are gonna spy on your kids do it with your loved one.
He dies before sentencing, Now we have no yardstick for similar crooks in the future, no order of restitution to be paid. Inheritance gets whatever he had left + life insurance benefits (which I bet is a pretty good chunk of any state budget)
A Republican friend of mine mockingly said "How dare he die before we get a chance to punish him." What he say in jest, I say in earnest.
Personally, I would have liked to see him live a long, long, long life breaking rocks in the hot sun. Since he probably would have ended up at Club Fed, I hope it hurt a tenth as much as losing your retirement and life savings overnight.
As an Atheist, I get no satisfaction from him keeling over. I literally feel robbed, and I had no money in their company. The people who did probably feel robbed all over again.
Some random fanboy on Slashdot just threw a hissyfit!!!
Wiktionary : Noun
hissyfit
1. (informal) An overreaction; a tantrum; a spell of shouting, anger or hysteria.
Stating my purchasing intentions and why can hardly be considered a hissyfit.
If I were alone in my opinion, you might have a point, look around at the current crop of PS2 owners and their plans regarding the PS3. Spend your cash how you like. Use Windows servers, buy Sony PS3s and Apple Ipods. Just don't expect sympathy. You GET what YOU pay for.
Of course, the big question concerned price. 90.29% of the surveyed feel the PS3 is too pricey, compared to just 9.71% who feel that it's priced just right. One developer commented, "It's more expensive than my rent."
Stay tuned, next month we will formally unveil some of the actual numbers in our forecasts. This month we will just say that yes, Sony could easily go from first to worst in the video game market.
The only numbers I need to see are MSRP and release date. I concur with your assessment. Kiss my DVD loving ass BluRay.
As a PS2 and GameCube (Not to mention the PCs) owner (and potential XBMC buyer) I will not purchase the PS3. Let me count the reasons why.
Did you know if you set your clock wrong WGA calls you a thief? Go ahead give it a try.
Guess what happens when your battery dies. I've already had 4 calls, thanks for the service calls MS, and keep up the shoddy work.
Actually, I really wish they would stop making me feel like a criminal, having to charge 35 bucks to set someones clock . I don't evwen want to support windows outside of my job, but I still get calls at home. I think I'll draw the line at Vista Launch.
Slashdot Mirror
But a portable web browser on any device is a good thing.
The GPL and the FSF are the direct result of an intellectual exercise to determine the best way to get to the end goal of freedom-to-modify code/Software. You may call that self-righteous and moralizing, I call it brilliant. RMS may seem a little too passionate for some, but that's because he is passionate, idealistic, and uncompromising in his beliefs. If you disagree with his beliefs, that fine. But saying, The FSF doesn't need him, bullocks I say. There is a "movement" available for those who disagree, talk with Bruce Perens.
I wanted to suggest everybody to stop using the term "GNU/Linux" and using "Linux" instead as a form of peaceful, non-confrontational protest against FSF's damage to Open Source enterprises.
Good Luck. Linux is GPL and uses GNU utilities. Almost all Linux Distros are GNU/Linux. Chicken and the egg.
From http://www.fsf.org/about/leadership.html
The Free Software Foundation is directed by:
* Richard M. Stallman, President
* Peter T. Brown, Executive Director
The Free Software Foundation has six people on its board of directors. They are:
* Geoffrey Knauth, Senior Software Engineer at SFA, Inc.
* Lawrence Lessig, Professor of Law at Stanford University
* Eben Moglen, Professor of Law and Legal History at Columbia University
* Henri Poole, Founder of CivicActions, a grassroots campaign technology consulting firm
* Richard M. Stallman, Founder of FSF and the GNU Project and author of the GNU GPL
* Gerald J. Sussman, Professor of Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Maybe you should take some time out to read a few essays or listen to full presentations, instead of reacting to sound bits fleeting across the web, before making your own useless sound bits.
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/fsfs/rms-essays.pdf
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/audio/audio.html
http://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-linux-faq.html
What is it about trying to protect users rights that gets so many people torqued?
Oh... I see, its the uncompromising demeanor of RMS. Tuff s#1T. Keep it up Richard.
I mean a fully functional multi-purpose computing/entertainment/communication/creation device. For some people Windows XP fits this definition with the addition of a few software titles. For me and mine Linux fits this definition and fits it better and cheaper.
if you define "desktop linux" as being able to play native 3D games reliably, then desktop linux is almost entirely a hobbiest system still
I said fully right. What I don't expect is it to play every Windows DirectX10 game the day it comes out. Eventually, odds are good, unless it is a MS title, we'll get it running. Better still we convince the publishers that we BUY Linux Binaries, I bought UT2004 and Quake4 and Doom3. I'd buy more. Wine takes care of the rest.
The simple fact remains that other than installing a linux machine, not much more has become easier.
Spoken like someone who doesn't recall how truly difficult everything was not so long ago in linux. We've come a long way, really really fast. I find it better. It may not be perfect but niether are the alternatives, I trust the forward momentum in this lane. Not only that I get to help if I want.
Some people really do just like to turn on their machine and find it works. Windows offers that, and still will for some time over linux.
http://kanotix.com/ Just works, off the CD, I wonder if the Vista DVD will be like that. The laptop I refer to in the parent post runs it 24/7.
So to sum it up, Nvidia makes a Linux Desktop, ATi breaks it.
Excellent troll my friend. Explain http://www.desktoplinux.com/index.html
Out of the 4 Desktops and 1 laptop in my home, 2 dual-boot, 3 are full time Linux.(All Debian) All of them gamers.
With an NVidia Graphics card Linux is a viable desktop. For work, web and Leisure.
Free Software is not a hobby, it is a way of life.
I look forward to the money I will save and you will spend on Vista. I look forward to the knowledge I will gain and you will be ignorant of. I look forward to modifying my system and my code to my liking, while you look forward to being locked out, broken apps and slashed features, and unsolvable crashes. (lest I forget the required reboots and reinstalls)
To each his own.
Damn, got me all excited, but alas, I think you meant http://www.ut2007.com/
It will continue to apdapt and evolve until it becomes sentient, but it will still be beta, and they will call it Google ShutUp.
I begin by saying that I hate the whiner and the grammar nazi as much as you, but..... Douglas Adams gets the nod from me for coining the phrase you are refering to. He really deserves to be quoted. so .... In context from Chapter 8.
The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a wholly remarkable book. It has been compiled and recompiled many times over many years and under many different editorships. It contains contributio from countless numbers of travellers and researchers.
The introduction begins like this: "Space," it says, "is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mindboggingly big it is. I mean you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that' just peanuts to space. Listen ..." and so on.
Hysterical Remix. http://movies.crooksandliars.com/DJ_teds_techno_tu bes.mp3
I just the other day got, an internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday and I just got it yesterday. Why?
Because it got tangled up with all these things going on the internet commercially...
They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the internet. And again, the internet is not something you just dump something on. It's not a truck.
It's a series of tubes.
And if you don't understand those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and its going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material.
Damn, Its almost even funnier reading it than watching it. 10 minute Audio Link http://media.publicknowledge.org/stevens-on-nn.mp3
Haven't made it through the whole thing yet, but FTR:
The business model of purchasing physical goods and services has served DoD well in the past; but it falls short when applied to software acquisition. By treating DoD-developed software code as a physical good, DoD is limiting and restricting the ability of the market to compete for the provision of new and innovative solutions and capabilities. By enabling industry to leverage an open code development model, DoD would provide the market incentives to increase the agility and competitiveness of the industrial base. Currently within DoD, there is no internal distribution policy or mechanism for DoD developed and paid for software code. By not enabling internal distribution, DoD creates an arbitrary scarcity of its own software code, which increases the development and maintenance costs of information technology across the Department. Other negative consequences include lock-in to obsolete proprietary technologies, the inability to extend existing capabilities in months vs. years, and snarls of interoperability that stem from the opacity and stove-piping of information systems.
Absolutely.
There are over 100,000 publicly available open source projects available spanning most functional areas.4 Many of these projects provide mature and robust solutions in their areas of focus. When possible, OSS components should be leveraged rather than funding the development of equivalent proprietary components for specific programs.
Damn Skippy!.
Challenges Culture and Process The primary challenges to this transition will be cultural, not technical. Over time, government acquisitions and development processes have built a bureaucracy and rewards system that encourages and supports the status quo. Careers are advanced primarily on program size, not necessarily overall efficiency. Furthermore, government contractors are measured by revenue; government program managers are measured by the size of their organization and their overall budget. The canonical government contracting process creates high entry costs for small innovative companies -- the established contractors attempt to control their positions through proprietary implementations and interfaces. The system is very good at protecting itself -- new approaches, such as OTD, will have to endure legal, security, and process challenges. The current infrastructure will attempt to delay change, claim they are adapting by trying to assume control of the innovative process.
My Favorite Quote is in the DOD report.
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.
-- Victor Hugo
All in All, I'd say the guy in charge of this report knows his stuff and I for one, welcome our new OSS-using DOD overlords.
To test the .Net stack, we ran Windows Server 2003 R2, SQL Server 2005 and SharePoint Portal Server 2003. Across the board, this configuration performed very well, with the top overall average throughput (by far) at 4.59M bps.
Quick check.....
$2,792.00 (Froogle Directron) Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise, 25 Clients
$5,489.18 (Froogle Non Academic) SQL Server 2005 Complete
$5,619.00 (MS Website Retail) SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Server License with 5 CALs
$1,124.00 (Dell) Suse Enterprise Linux 9 With Server Hardwarex ?c=us&cs=555&l=en&oc=MLB1580&s=biz Couldn't find Suse Enterprise 10
Integrated LAMP Stackhttp://www.novell.com/products/linuxenterpris eserver/lamp.html
http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/config.asp
Hmmm, Could train a couple of Windows Admins with $11,000. Better yet just Hire a good Linux Admin.
To a large degree, we credit this strong showing to the high level of integration that exists among the components of this stack. While most of the open-source and Java systems are developed independently of each other, each of the .Net components is designed specifically to integrate and perform well together.
Even if the .Net stack had bombed convincingly in these tests, it would probably still maintain popularity in many companies.
Some people (PHBs) will never come around.
But its strong showing should give companies confidence that the .Net stack will handle most high-level enterprise needs.
For more than $12Grand it better blow away the Free Alternatives and configure itself and require zero admin.
I know I will get slammed for not using TCO but I don't believe those numbers at all. In my experience it takes the same amount of time for day to day maintenance. And when there is a problem (and there will be, no matter which one you choose) It costs me less time and therefore money to bring back up the Linux box.
Cost is not the only factor in a buying decision but is a factor, and if performance is arguably equal than it is a huge factor.
This Babe? http://images.google.com/images?q=Lisa+Randall&num =100&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&sa=X&oi=images&ct=title
From the all-powerful wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TANSTAAFL
TANSTAAFL is an acronym for the adage "There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch", popularized by science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein in his 1966 novel The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, which discusses the problems caused by not considering the eventual outcome of an unbalanced economy.
Paraphrasing and quoting are not the same. If heinlein wanted to say shit he would have.
After Midway retreated from the arcades in 2001, Atari Games found itself focusing exclusively on home releases. Apparently those didn't sell well enough, as on one cold day in February 2003, all of the studio's employees were, without warning, led off premises as the building was locked behind them - much to their collective confusion and dismay. It was not until later that employees were allowed to return for their personal effects. Thus ended the 31-year history of Atari - save the endless Midway compilations that place Atari Games productions front and center, as the shining gems of Midway's history.
They never let me go back and collect my personal belongings after escorting me out.
Seriously though, very sad. My 800XL still isn't the same since I told it it's parents had died.
Least they got in on a UT title.
Warsow. . . .
Nexuiz. . . .
OpenArena . .
Legends . . .
Tremulous . .
And the rest : http://www.icculus.org/lgfaq/gamelist.php
We hope and expect that millions of third-party developers around the world will build solutions using the Open XML file formats. Already, hundreds of thousands of developers are working with the XML capabilities of Microsoft Office. Any developer may use or join the OpenXMLDeveloper.org community to receive the latest information and participate in active code-sharing and experience-sharing opportunities.
Come join the covenant, Be one with the covenant. Or we Will Sue your ass.
We had this customer who was irate that his new computer was acting up and it was new I built it myself. No reason for it to be acting so strange. He brought it in we checked it out seemed fine.
He comes back complaining again. We replace the entire PC. He leaves happy for 2 days. Then he comes back demanding a refund.
We tell him if there is something wrong with the PC we will make it right. Leave it with us and we'll throw everything we got at it. He does. His wife comes in an hr later. "Can I see my husbands computer for a minute, I just need to check one thing.?" Sure come on back. She presses Shift Ctrl ScrollLock or something similar & up pops this EVIL unnoticable Screengrabber. She quickly scans through the last 3 days worth of pics. Instant message from her teen daughter, Web surfing of her hubby 3 pics a second. Gobbling up space & cycles. If she doesn't check it daily & dump it fills the harddrive with 1280x1024x32 Pics. I explain to her it is unnecessary to grab so many, 1 every couple of minutes is more than sufficient. She asks me to promise I won't tell her husband. I promise she tips me 50 bucks and promises to bring me a bottle of wine (her Idea).
Later that same day.
The owner (who has dealt with the husband only on more than one occassion since the sale.) checks in with me to see if I found the problem. I calmly explain the situation, and the promise. He asked me "Did she make you promise not to tell me?"
Obviously I can not and did not make that promise.
"Well then, I never promised her shit. But I did promise her husband I would find out what was up & fix it." Cue him Dialing.
Later that same day, Hubby comes in pays us for all our service (3 hrs on site. 3 trips to the shop) and tips me 50 bucks.
Still Later
She comes in like a rocket right passed the counter into the bench area Slams down a shiny bottle of wine & says thanks a fuckin lot.
My boss says thank you come again.
The husband still shops there service & purchase.
Moral of the story: If you are gonna spy on your kids do it with your loved one.
Opened the wine on my wedding day. Wife loved it.
He dies before sentencing, Now we have no yardstick for similar crooks in the future, no order of restitution to be paid. Inheritance gets whatever he had left + life insurance benefits (which I bet is a pretty good chunk of any state budget)
A Republican friend of mine mockingly said "How dare he die before we get a chance to punish him." What he say in jest, I say in earnest.
Personally, I would have liked to see him live a long, long, long life breaking rocks in the hot sun. Since he probably would have ended up at Club Fed, I hope it hurt a tenth as much as losing your retirement and life savings overnight.
As an Atheist, I get no satisfaction from him keeling over. I literally feel robbed, and I had no money in their company. The people who did probably feel robbed all over again.
Thank You, I almost forgot the reeking pile that is Star Wars Galaxies.
Wiktionary : Noun hissyfit 1. (informal) An overreaction; a tantrum; a spell of shouting, anger or hysteria.
Stating my purchasing intentions and why can hardly be considered a hissyfit.
If I were alone in my opinion, you might have a point, look around at the current crop of PS2 owners and their plans regarding the PS3. Spend your cash how you like. Use Windows servers, buy Sony PS3s and Apple Ipods. Just don't expect sympathy. You GET what YOU pay for.
Of course, the big question concerned price. 90.29% of the surveyed feel the PS3 is too pricey, compared to just 9.71% who feel that it's priced just right. One developer commented, "It's more expensive than my rent."
Wow, I need to get a summer home in Japan.
The only numbers I need to see are MSRP and release date. I concur with your assessment. Kiss my DVD loving ass BluRay.
As a PS2 and GameCube (Not to mention the PCs) owner (and potential XBMC buyer) I will not purchase the PS3. Let me count the reasons why.
RootKit
console Price
RootKit
MemoryStick
RootKit
MiniDisc
Betamax
Game Price
RootKit
RumbleLess Controller
About the only thing that interested me was linux. But damn I can build a pretty beefy linux box for the cost of just the console.
Oh, and did I mention the RootKit thing?
Did you know if you set your clock wrong WGA calls you a thief? Go ahead give it a try.
Guess what happens when your battery dies. I've already had 4 calls, thanks for the service calls MS, and keep up the shoddy work.
Actually, I really wish they would stop making me feel like a criminal, having to charge 35 bucks to set someones clock . I don't evwen want to support windows outside of my job, but I still get calls at home. I think I'll draw the line at Vista Launch.
http://physicsweb.org/articles/news/7/11/15/1#need le
Ok, so its not slicing through his fingers but it's a step right.