The guy mentioned that he was a consultant. If you're a consultant, your income can disappear at a moment's notice; All your customers have to do is stop calling you. If you don't want that to happen, you have to be extra careful to not neglect your customers.
Even without that, people have died from drinking too much water. It takes a *lot* of water, but it's not outside the range of a "See-how-much-water-you-can-drink Contest" that you might have in college.
So, Dell's competitors seem to have no problem adapting to the market, but Michael Dell somehow wants the market to change for him.
I can tell you right now that the Debian folks aren't going to suddenly drop everything they're doing any time soon. Ubuntu might get folded back into Debian, but that's a long way away, and I wouldn't bet on it. The same thing goes for Knoppix. It's even less likely for Linspire, because it's sold by a for-profit company.
And those are just the Debian-based distros, for whom it would probably be technically easiest to merge. What about SuSE (Novell), Fedora/Red Hat, Gentoo? Do you think they will merge with each other?
News flash: If Michael Dell doesn't want to serve the *actual* market, instead of some fantasy market in his head, I'm sure his competitors will be glad!
Not only that, but if you complain to someone's ISP, and their internet access gets cut off, and it turns out that you were wrong (such as if somebody actually just broke into your border router and was faking packets from there), you would likely be liable for damages to the innocent party, and possibly to their ISP.
Frankly, I think such a lawsuit would be justified.
TCG is developing specifications for hardware building blocks, including the TPM (Trusted Platform Module) chip that can secure transactions from mobile devices.
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The guy mentioned that he was a consultant. If you're a consultant, your income can disappear at a moment's notice; All your customers have to do is stop calling you. If you don't want that to happen, you have to be extra careful to not neglect your customers.
Actually, it should be par for the course, for any consultant. Being indispensable does not create The Warm Fuzzy Feeling (TM).
Even without that, people have died from drinking too much water. It takes a *lot* of water, but it's not outside the range of a "See-how-much-water-you-can-drink Contest" that you might have in college.
I can tell you right now that the Debian folks aren't going to suddenly drop everything they're doing any time soon. Ubuntu might get folded back into Debian, but that's a long way away, and I wouldn't bet on it. The same thing goes for Knoppix. It's even less likely for Linspire, because it's sold by a for-profit company.
And those are just the Debian-based distros, for whom it would probably be technically easiest to merge. What about SuSE (Novell), Fedora/Red Hat, Gentoo? Do you think they will merge with each other?
News flash: If Michael Dell doesn't want to serve the *actual* market, instead of some fantasy market in his head, I'm sure his competitors will be glad!
So that's what Web 2.0 lets me do...
What kind of argument is that? Please don't create noise like that. It just drowns out the people who are voicing real concerns.
I wonder what the guys at id have to say about this...
Why not? This shouldn't be a problem at all if you're running a decent mail system.
Various forum software will some with provisions to block NJ from access.
Ah, but now, thanks to Intel and Skype, AMD can probably legally manufacture chips that idenify as "GenuineIntel".
Yes, complaining about fraud is childish foot stamping.
Yes, here.
... assuming JSL applies in a particular jurisdiction, of course.
Ever heard of joint and several liability. If you're even 0.01% responsible for somebody's loss, you can be held liable for all their losses.
Reference?
Thankfully, I graduate in a couple months.
Frankly, I think such a lawsuit would be justified.
We've all heard it before.
Great!
That's why we have RFC 2606
It's spelled "hilariously", moron. ;)
Who would win in a fight? Arnold Schwarzenegger or Chuck Norris?
s/explodes/a splode/
That word.... I do not think it means what you think it means.
Ok. Do you have a better analogy?