I'm pretty darned public on the net and otherwise, and I don't think I need to be putting pictures of Peter and the boys up in any forum. Pictures of me can be seen and my info is available, but that's going a bit far dontchya think?
There will always be a wreck beach around for those who wish to be 'Open'. I think the majority will stick to keeping private private.
This is setting a market worth for their OS. Nobody pays retail for Windows, at least very few do. So if no-one pays retail box price, why not use that number to up the value of the product?
Look at it this way. Have you ever tried to rent retail space? Even retail space that has been sitting on the market unrented for several months will not have the rental price tag lowered, because that would set a precedent and lower values throughout the neighboring buildings/shops. This wouldn't do! The price must be kept high even at the cost of lost monthly income. MS doesn't have to worry about lost income because it can just use the retail box price to set the market value illusion while selling at OEM and making people think they're getting a wicked deal. It very much softens the blow of having to pay a high price for such a product.
> I don't think the police should be allowed to use illicitly gained information or that they should be allowed to encourage private citizens to commit felonies.
I think the Internet is Free. If we as citizens can use information gained, why cant the police/FBI/CIA/RIAA?
There's also a 7-install rule. I have a machine that, when [re]installing XP on it, the network driver will take perfectly on the seventh install. Every time before the seventh will encounter random errors.
One of Slackware's big pluses is flexibility, at least that's one of the big one's that has kept me using it for quite a few years on both my desktops and servers. My desktop box is quite pretty too (http://www.websterscafe.com/Screenshot.png) running Gnome from http://www.gware.org/. It's also quite simple to fiddle with the guts of the system without screwing things up. For example I prefer to use Postfix instead of Sendmail, so I just pop it in. For those who want a desktop system that's pretty out of the box Slack has never been the distro of choice, and if it becomes one, I'll probably stop using it.
Stop manufacturing Hummers and get to work on those Hybrids.
Get western troops out of the east and attempt solutions through diplomacy and education on BOTH sides of the pond.
Stop packaging everything with more plastic and paint than the actual product.
Find methods of getting donations of food to Africa that dont get taxed to the last grain before arrival.
Find methods of levelling the economy so the poor arent as poor, and the rich aren't as rich.
If Microsoft stopped selling in Europe that would leave a fairly large area of fertile brain in which competitive software can grow, and I dont think the brains at MSFT are so stupid as to miss that fact. That's one reason, and a very good one, that MSFT will pay the fines and get Vista [N] versions out the door ASAP.
I dont know, I found freeipodguide.com pretty easily, but freemac.com is one of those stupid search pages covered in pay-per-click junk. Probably kills Windows computers too. Nope, Macs definitely didn't get the kind of media coverage ands hype the iPod did. Not only that but there's little in the way of a price barrier with the iPod compared to the Mac.
Call me a non-conformist. The marketing hype sold the iPod by making it "cool".
Nope. I avoided Windows 95 like the plague. I used windoes 98 for about a year, then did side by side testing with linux and windows 2k on identical boxen. As well around that time I had a new family into which television played an extremely minor roll.
At any rate, Microsoft has forever been the masters of the marketing spin. Vista will hit the shelves with fanfare like you've only dreamed about, and it'll probably do well while all the IT guys stand aside and grumble about the insecurities and structure. I'll tell you this though, those IT guys are going to be fighting against early adoption while the managers eat the hype morning noon and night, and eventually shove it onto every workstation they can because they're SURE that it will end all those pesky headaches!
As for the ads, I'm still avoiding them like the plague and will judge the OS when I'm forced to use it.
Why use electricity to pull? This could be implemented wholly mechanically using computers only to udjust tension as needed. No more power that needed to run a home box.
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I'm pretty darned public on the net and otherwise, and I don't think I need to be putting pictures of Peter and the boys up in any forum. Pictures of me can be seen and my info is available, but that's going a bit far dontchya think?
There will always be a wreck beach around for those who wish to be 'Open'. I think the majority will stick to keeping private private.
This is setting a market worth for their OS. Nobody pays retail for Windows, at least very few do. So if no-one pays retail box price, why not use that number to up the value of the product?
Look at it this way. Have you ever tried to rent retail space? Even retail space that has been sitting on the market unrented for several months will not have the rental price tag lowered, because that would set a precedent and lower values throughout the neighboring buildings/shops. This wouldn't do! The price must be kept high even at the cost of lost monthly income. MS doesn't have to worry about lost income because it can just use the retail box price to set the market value illusion while selling at OEM and making people think they're getting a wicked deal. It very much softens the blow of having to pay a high price for such a product.
> I don't think the police should be allowed to use illicitly gained information or that they should be allowed to encourage private citizens to commit felonies.
I think the Internet is Free. If we as citizens can use information gained, why cant the police/FBI/CIA/RIAA?
Yup, I'm going that far.
There's also a 7-install rule. I have a machine that, when [re]installing XP on it, the network driver will take perfectly on the seventh install. Every time before the seventh will encounter random errors.
One of Slackware's big pluses is flexibility, at least that's one of the big one's that has kept me using it for quite a few years on both my desktops and servers. My desktop box is quite pretty too (http://www.websterscafe.com/Screenshot.png) running Gnome from http://www.gware.org/. It's also quite simple to fiddle with the guts of the system without screwing things up. For example I prefer to use Postfix instead of Sendmail, so I just pop it in. For those who want a desktop system that's pretty out of the box Slack has never been the distro of choice, and if it becomes one, I'll probably stop using it.
Stop manufacturing Hummers and get to work on those Hybrids. Get western troops out of the east and attempt solutions through diplomacy and education on BOTH sides of the pond. Stop packaging everything with more plastic and paint than the actual product. Find methods of getting donations of food to Africa that dont get taxed to the last grain before arrival. Find methods of levelling the economy so the poor arent as poor, and the rich aren't as rich.
Careful, or you'll get 'promoted' to Marketing.
just go completely overboard? http://cbs13.com/topstories/topstories_story_18017 4619.html
If Microsoft stopped selling in Europe that would leave a fairly large area of fertile brain in which competitive software can grow, and I dont think the brains at MSFT are so stupid as to miss that fact. That's one reason, and a very good one, that MSFT will pay the fines and get Vista [N] versions out the door ASAP.
For every action an equal and opposite reaction. Politically that holds true, but most just hang out in the center and drink beer...
Thank god us Linux users dont have to put up with that sort of thing!
I dont know, I found freeipodguide.com pretty easily, but freemac.com is one of those stupid search pages covered in pay-per-click junk. Probably kills Windows computers too. Nope, Macs definitely didn't get the kind of media coverage ands hype the iPod did. Not only that but there's little in the way of a price barrier with the iPod compared to the Mac. Call me a non-conformist. The marketing hype sold the iPod by making it "cool".
Nah, XPSP23. Vista's been pushed back to fall 2042.
Heck, I have a machine that reboots when you shake it and it's almost thirty years old. Still works too!
Those etch a sketch guys rocked.
Nope. I avoided Windows 95 like the plague. I used windoes 98 for about a year, then did side by side testing with linux and windows 2k on identical boxen. As well around that time I had a new family into which television played an extremely minor roll.
At any rate, Microsoft has forever been the masters of the marketing spin. Vista will hit the shelves with fanfare like you've only dreamed about, and it'll probably do well while all the IT guys stand aside and grumble about the insecurities and structure. I'll tell you this though, those IT guys are going to be fighting against early adoption while the managers eat the hype morning noon and night, and eventually shove it onto every workstation they can because they're SURE that it will end all those pesky headaches!
As for the ads, I'm still avoiding them like the plague and will judge the OS when I'm forced to use it.
Microsoft is leveraging its flagship operating system to corner the market on aspirin...
Why use electricity to pull? This could be implemented wholly mechanically using computers only to udjust tension as needed. No more power that needed to run a home box.
I just bought myself a $250 guitar.