I think it's more of an impolite double entendre. Orto means right (as in "right angle", ángulo recto, or "right spelling", ortografía), but recto can also mean rectum.
MySQL Marten Mickos has often spoken of "taking a $10 billion market and making it a $3 billion market."
Maybe it was not worth $10 billion to begin with. Should we outlaw washing machines to push laundries forward, then? What about refrigerators taking away all the ice-sellers' market?
When the whole world uses Wikipedia as the reference for a lot of things{{Citacion needed}}, what's wrong when Wikipedia does it? This is completely biased...
I don't think ordinary users notice. When I talk to my non-tech-savvy friends, they usually ask me if this or that price is right for a given computer, mostly without taking into cosideration its characteristics (Once a girl I know asked me if a 300 price tag for a laptop could be right, and when I asked for specs, she only replied "Acer"). Besides, we've got big PC stores here (like PC City) whose prices can be 50% more expensive than those you find in smaller, franchised, specialized shops, and they still sell the most.
So no, ordinary users will judge the price based on how awesome the salesman tells them it is (and, of course, if it doesn't come with Windows, don't bother calling it a PC, please, it just confuses them).
Of course, anyone can sue anyone for anything any time in our legal system
Which side of the Pond's legal system are you talking about? Here in the EU (at least in Spain), we have good laughs at the frivolous lawsuits going on day after day in the US.
OVH offers dedicated servers with a dedicated 5 Mbps line, but you can upload some MB (I can't really remember if it was 5 or 10 MB) using full 100 Mbps capacity. After that, you let your upload privilege "refill" (i.e. using less than 5 Mbps "recharges the line"), so you can get another burst.
Nothing new under the sun. If anything, it's kind of a cool feature. If you need to measure real bandwidth, bursty downloads won't do.
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I mean it takes alot of brains to maintain a big business
- Not in our dreams! Only on TV and radio. And in magazines. And movies. And at ballgames. And on buses. And milk cartons. And t-shirts. And bananas. And written on the sky. But not in dreams! No sirree!
What about DirectX 10? If they can't get enough gamers to upgrate to Vista, how can they justify to game developers that DX10 is the way to go? They will ask themselves "well, what will our sales will look like if we use DX9?", and if it's significantly higher than with DX10, no Vista-only for you.
However, if there are enough Vista copies out there (either pirated or legit), they can safely release using DX10 which, in turn, will make Vista more appealing for end users (more xclusiv gamez!).
The way I see it, they can choose between positive or negative feedback.
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We need a quellesurprise tag...
I think it's more of an impolite double entendre. Orto means right (as in "right angle", ángulo recto, or "right spelling", ortografía), but recto can also mean rectum.
I can only think of one, maybe two issues effecting people ;)
They just want to win PETA's award... with a classy touch, maybe.
Maybe it was not worth $10 billion to begin with. Should we outlaw washing machines to push laundries forward, then? What about refrigerators taking away all the ice-sellers' market?
Mmmmmm maybe you misunderstood, and he was actually referring to some other clarification source...
'brb, seizure'
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When the whole world uses Wikipedia as the reference for a lot of things{{Citacion needed}}, what's wrong when Wikipedia does it? This is completely biased...
In my case, I seriously doubt they'd even get a Porsche's seat-belt...
Someone set us up the anchor!
Did you try baking them a cake shaped like the Internet?
That's because they're the ones that aren't constantly hanging...
Besides, what kind of editor doesn't remove the "Quote, Profile, Research" no-longer-linked links? :D
I hope PolishLinux.org has an extensive backup server, too. And a fire extinguisher or two.
And that 300 were meant to be Euros, but Slashdot likes them so much, it won't give them away, or even show them.
I don't think ordinary users notice. When I talk to my non-tech-savvy friends, they usually ask me if this or that price is right for a given computer, mostly without taking into cosideration its characteristics (Once a girl I know asked me if a 300 price tag for a laptop could be right, and when I asked for specs, she only replied "Acer"). Besides, we've got big PC stores here (like PC City) whose prices can be 50% more expensive than those you find in smaller, franchised, specialized shops, and they still sell the most.
So no, ordinary users will judge the price based on how awesome the salesman tells them it is (and, of course, if it doesn't come with Windows, don't bother calling it a PC, please, it just confuses them).
If we ever were to watch only the good movies, they'd be out of business before you can say landschaftsarchitektonisches.
Yes, I see how the US is putting pressure on all the African countries with which they trade weapons, diamonds and oil...
I think it was aimed towards "'unfortunately', because most of us wish all that would have never taken place".
Which side of the Pond's legal system are you talking about? Here in the EU (at least in Spain), we have good laughs at the frivolous lawsuits going on day after day in the US.
OVH offers dedicated servers with a dedicated 5 Mbps line, but you can upload some MB (I can't really remember if it was 5 or 10 MB) using full 100 Mbps capacity. After that, you let your upload privilege "refill" (i.e. using less than 5 Mbps "recharges the line"), so you can get another burst.
Nothing new under the sun. If anything, it's kind of a cool feature. If you need to measure real bandwidth, bursty downloads won't do.
Kinda
- Didn't you have ads in the 20th century?
- Not in our dreams! Only on TV and radio. And in magazines. And movies. And at ballgames. And on buses. And milk cartons. And t-shirts. And bananas. And written on the sky. But not in dreams! No sirree!
What about DirectX 10? If they can't get enough gamers to upgrate to Vista, how can they justify to game developers that DX10 is the way to go? They will ask themselves "well, what will our sales will look like if we use DX9?", and if it's significantly higher than with DX10, no Vista-only for you.
However, if there are enough Vista copies out there (either pirated or legit), they can safely release using DX10 which, in turn, will make Vista more appealing for end users (more xclusiv gamez!).
The way I see it, they can choose between positive or negative feedback.