yeah...but i won't buy GameCube 1.5 aka Wii. It's really a bargain to spend money on Xbox 360 and PS3 when you factor in all the newest hardware powers for the cheap price. Wii might win some brownie point on the fun factor but without an powerful console. i don't see how Wii going to beat Xbox 350 or PS3 down the line when all the new game starting to take the advantage of the new hardware. The Wii game controller can only get you so far when the graphic starting to look like crap on Wii. Graphic play a big part of overall game play. No less than the Wii controller
LOL. "I am quite content to use MySQL and PHPMyAdmin," phpmyadmin? nigger, plz. MySQL suck compare to MS SQL. stop smoking 'em weed. it obviously damage your brain already.
roughlydrafted.com? oh, please. anything that come out of that website is not creditable. Xbox360 is one year ahead of both PS3 and Wii (of course it won't sell as much as Wii since it's not the new "hawtness" such as Wii) and MS have the best online gaming piece (Xbox live) that Wii and PS3 can't match.
Xbox 360 already sold 12million and keep selling at a steady pace.
Why don't you try not to make up shit like you did at Digg.com? Everyone know you(roughlydrafted.com) submit your own story that is not creditable and down right laughable! wigger, plz.
why? Not everything created by Google is a home run. MS also enter the Game console late as well and Xbox360 is doing better than expected. If you don't even enter the market, how do you know it's too little and late? how do you know MS's online storage is too little? it's in beta and have you sign up to try it?
"Apple hasn't been been convicted as a monopolist." this is getting old. let's turn the table around if Apple have 90% of the market and convicted as a monopolist. Can i sue Apple for every feature that they put into Mac since it compete directly with my widget.
i don't think the author understand what make Office better than OOo. It is not template and clipart. those are easy to add. why do you need MS for that? I have been using Office 2007 for some months now and the Ribbeon UI is really the feature of Office2007. if MS open source that. what's the point of selling Office? MS might as well just open source the entire Office.
It's funny that he think template and clipart are the reason that people buy Office. far from it.
lol. that's your reason. nice counter argument. if Mac reach 90% of the market share then Apple is not allow to bundle anything, right? Apple is the monopoly on Mac! You Sir is a typical Zealot.
"If not for Microsoft, consumers might have saved billions on hardware by removing the microsoft tax. Dozens of smaller companies might still be in business."
No such thing as Microsoft tax. There are many companies offer PC without OS or pre-loaded with Linux.(Dell have been doing it for age) Apple is the one with tax. Can you get a Mac without OS X? Typical FUDs. BTW, there are many articles posted on slashdot about how to get refund from Dell for your unwanted Windows. There are more than dozens of ISVs still in business offering Windows apps. You probably mean dozens of small companies working in *nix market. That market was killed by OSS software. Go blame OSS!
Woah! are you trying to spin this? you said it's already done but when someone else point out it's not the same thing. you try to spin it with "Keyboard and mouse are hardware. They're cheap peripherals, but they're still hardware." Holyfuck! you know it's very different from the original statement.
"I have no response. I'm too busy rolling on the floor laughing insanely. A Microsoft box should never be connected directly to the Internet without either a Linksys/Netgear type NAT/firewall in front of it (or a *nix based equivalent), nor would any competent non MS-brainwashed person use it as any kind of Internet server. (I know many do - doing so demonstrates their lack of competence, directly)"
It amazed me how Windows server manage to keep gaining market share as Linux and eating away Unix market share. Care to explain why Windows server keep gaining ground and don't bullshit me with all the usual MS's monopoly, tactic...etc. If Unix is too expensive, Linux and BSD already out there for years before NT4 roll along. There are million of Microsoft server box connected directly to the Internet and used by million users. How the FUCK did *nix let this happen?
"Ultimately, that means that open-source software developers are subsidizing the big solution providers at their own expense. Writes Riehle: "If it were up to the system integrators, all software would be free (unless they had a major stake in a particular component). Then, all software license revenue would become services revenue."
i believe programmer should get pay for writing software like book writer. do book author get pay when they do a signing tour(service) and no money on the book they wrote which they spend a lot of time on. OSS will only benefit firm like IBM. IBM love it. It won't matter if IBM sell AIX or Linux, IBM win .
on the second try. Office 2007 is really an improved software that MS put out unlike Vista. Office 2007 plus Sharepoint is what getting customers hook up and sadly there are no equivalent in OSS space for OOo to combo with.
MS's Office side of business will probably bring more money in than their Windows side.
"the way to "fix" this is to help others to migrate to Linux systems. With the open source advocates pulling - and Microsoft pushing (with their anti-consumer acts) it's a sure win for Linux. It's going to take some time to get there, though..."
5 years gap between XP and Vista. All the negative press about Vista and yet Linux/OS X can't even take 10% of Windows market share. Windows still own 90% of the desktop market share. As soon as all the FUDs around Vista is clear out. The history will repeat itself (when MS first release XP) I'm running Vista Business on my desktop and laptop. Vista and Office 2007 is making Linux/OS X harder to catch up. Say whatever you want about Vista, Vista is a great XP 2.0 and consumers will accept it once the cloud around Vista is lifted.
level what field? bullshit is a bullshit no matter how you slice and dice it. if this level the playing field then allow me to shove my shits down your throat!
"1) Designed the OS from scratch." MS got bitch slapped for shipping Vista after 5 years. I doubt MS can afford to designed from scratch for this round. Perhaps, the next round of Windows release can be from ground up.
even if you lower the price, people will use priated and cracked software because why pay when you can get away with cracked/priated software. people still download illegal music even when iTune sell per song for only $.99
yeah. i'm going to load OpenSuse on Apple Mac and if Mac got fucked up. i'm going to blame Apple for not honoring the warranty on Mac with OS X.
it's so amusing reading retarded comment like your. hey! you bought a Dell laptop with Windows on it. it's your own fucking problem if shits happened to your laptop. let's blame Ford if your custom install mp3 player fucked up the car.
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yeah...but i won't buy GameCube 1.5 aka Wii. It's really a bargain to spend money on Xbox 360 and PS3 when you factor in all the newest hardware powers for the cheap price. Wii might win some brownie point on the fun factor but without an powerful console. i don't see how Wii going to beat Xbox 350 or PS3 down the line when all the new game starting to take the advantage of the new hardware. The Wii game controller can only get you so far when the graphic starting to look like crap on Wii. Graphic play a big part of overall game play. No less than the Wii controller
LOL. "I am quite content to use MySQL and PHPMyAdmin," phpmyadmin? nigger, plz. MySQL suck compare to MS SQL. stop smoking 'em weed. it obviously damage your brain already.
roughlydrafted.com? oh, please. anything that come out of that website is not creditable. Xbox360 is one year ahead of both PS3 and Wii (of course it won't sell as much as Wii since it's not the new "hawtness" such as Wii) and MS have the best online gaming piece (Xbox live) that Wii and PS3 can't match.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox360
Xbox 360 already sold 12million and keep selling at a steady pace.
Why don't you try not to make up shit like you did at Digg.com? Everyone know you(roughlydrafted.com) submit your own story that is not creditable and down right laughable! wigger, plz.
why? Not everything created by Google is a home run. MS also enter the Game console late as well and Xbox360 is doing better than expected. If you don't even enter the market, how do you know it's too little and late? how do you know MS's online storage is too little? it's in beta and have you sign up to try it?
hey dickhead! you can't install it on any generic Intel PC. stupid fuck!
"Apple hasn't been been convicted as a monopolist." this is getting old. let's turn the table around if Apple have 90% of the market and convicted as a monopolist. Can i sue Apple for every feature that they put into Mac since it compete directly with my widget.
i don't think the author understand what make Office better than OOo. It is not template and clipart. those are easy to add. why do you need MS for that? I have been using Office 2007 for some months now and the Ribbeon UI is really the feature of Office2007. if MS open source that. what's the point of selling Office? MS might as well just open source the entire Office.
It's funny that he think template and clipart are the reason that people buy Office. far from it.
lol. that's your reason. nice counter argument. if Mac reach 90% of the market share then Apple is not allow to bundle anything, right? Apple is the monopoly on Mac! You Sir is a typical Zealot.
How about Mac? it bundle with all the apps that come free. why don't you cry about it?
Gee. Apple bundle their crapware with OS X as well. why don't you jump up and down about Apple?
"If not for Microsoft, consumers might have saved billions on hardware by removing the microsoft tax. Dozens of smaller companies might still be in business."
No such thing as Microsoft tax. There are many companies offer PC without OS or pre-loaded with Linux.(Dell have been doing it for age) Apple is the one with tax. Can you get a Mac without OS X? Typical FUDs. BTW, there are many articles posted on slashdot about how to get refund from Dell for your unwanted Windows. There are more than dozens of ISVs still in business offering Windows apps. You probably mean dozens of small companies working in *nix market. That market was killed by OSS software. Go blame OSS!
Woah! are you trying to spin this? you said it's already done but when someone else point out it's not the same thing. you try to spin it with "Keyboard and mouse are hardware. They're cheap peripherals, but they're still hardware." Holyfuck! you know it's very different from the original statement.
"I have no response. I'm too busy rolling on the floor laughing insanely. A Microsoft box should never be connected directly to the Internet without either a Linksys/Netgear type NAT/firewall in front of it (or a *nix based equivalent), nor would any competent non MS-brainwashed person use it as any kind of Internet server. (I know many do - doing so demonstrates their lack of competence, directly)"
It amazed me how Windows server manage to keep gaining market share as Linux and eating away Unix market share. Care to explain why Windows server keep gaining ground and don't bullshit me with all the usual MS's monopoly, tactic...etc. If Unix is too expensive, Linux and BSD already out there for years before NT4 roll along. There are million of Microsoft server box connected directly to the Internet and used by million users. How the FUCK did *nix let this happen?
WoW! this comment is insightful?
http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2007/04/open_sou rce_and.php
"Ultimately, that means that open-source software developers are subsidizing the big solution providers at their own expense. Writes Riehle: "If it were up to the system integrators, all software would be free (unless they had a major stake in a particular component). Then, all software license revenue would become services revenue."
i believe programmer should get pay for writing software like book writer. do book author get pay when they do a signing tour(service) and no money on the book they wrote which they spend a lot of time on. OSS will only benefit firm like IBM. IBM love it. It won't matter if IBM sell AIX or Linux, IBM win .
on the second try. Office 2007 is really an improved software that MS put out unlike Vista. Office 2007 plus Sharepoint is what getting customers hook up and sadly there are no equivalent in OSS space for OOo to combo with.
MS's Office side of business will probably bring more money in than their Windows side.
"the way to "fix" this is to help others to migrate to Linux systems. With the open source advocates pulling - and Microsoft pushing (with their anti-consumer acts) it's a sure win for Linux. It's going to take some time to get there, though..."
5 years gap between XP and Vista. All the negative press about Vista and yet Linux/OS X can't even take 10% of Windows market share. Windows still own 90% of the desktop market share. As soon as all the FUDs around Vista is clear out. The history will repeat itself (when MS first release XP) I'm running Vista Business on my desktop and laptop. Vista and Office 2007 is making Linux/OS X harder to catch up. Say whatever you want about Vista, Vista is a great XP 2.0 and consumers will accept it once the cloud around Vista is lifted.
level what field? bullshit is a bullshit no matter how you slice and dice it. if this level the playing field then allow me to shove my shits down your throat!
and who the fuck are you to tell them what to do. if you don't like their IE only website, go somewhere else.
"1) Designed the OS from scratch." MS got bitch slapped for shipping Vista after 5 years. I doubt MS can afford to designed from scratch for this round. Perhaps, the next round of Windows release can be from ground up.
even if you lower the price, people will use priated and cracked software because why pay when you can get away with cracked/priated software. people still download illegal music even when iTune sell per song for only $.99
Outlook Web Access (the original AJAX), much?
only American know how to write software??? ain't you so full of yourself.
yeah. i'm going to load OpenSuse on Apple Mac and if Mac got fucked up. i'm going to blame Apple for not honoring the warranty on Mac with OS X.
it's so amusing reading retarded comment like your. hey! you bought a Dell laptop with Windows on it. it's your own fucking problem if shits happened to your laptop. let's blame Ford if your custom install mp3 player fucked up the car.
bunch retards on Slashdot.
At least you can get refund for Vista. Let's see if Apple will do that with Mac. hey, i don't want Mac OSX, Can i get refund on it?