Novell will be around in 10 years. I doubt that companies like symantic, nortin, intuit, and AOL will.
Yeah, people will eventually stop buying Symantic's Nortin AntaVirus.
...nuclear power plants are nowhere to be found since we're the world's largest producer of hydroelectric power but it wasn't always like this... In 1968, after a nuclear meltdown in Charlemagne (Quebec's own Chernobyl accident), the government decided to ban nuclear power for fear of another disaster. Unfortunately, it was too late, since Celine Dion was unleashed to the world soon after that and the rest, as they say, is history...
Sounds like a badly written Uncyclopedia article or something.
"Of the 32.2 million citizens of Canada, 17.5 million are native English speakers, 7.7 million are native French-speakers and 5.2 million are native speakers of neither of Canada's two official languages." Source
7.7 million plus a few million who learned it as a second language...
90% of the population? Not really.
"At that point, it was clear from the business point of view that I didn't really think we can survive on our own," Wright said. But part of that decision meant laying off about 40 percent of his roughly 240 employees. "That was by far the hardest part, knowing that we were going to let go of so many people," Wright said. "But the reality was that we would have had to let go of everybody had we not done the acquisition. It was just a matter of time."
And so it was announced in June 1997 that Maxis would be acquired by Electronic Arts in a $125 million deal, Will Wright personally banking an estimated $15m in stocks.
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"The EU is roughly the size of the USA in population and area."
No, it's not.
Population of the EU: 499,021,851
Population of the US: 305,722,000
Size of the EU: 4,324,782 km or 1,669,807 sq mi
Size of the US: 9,826,630 km or 3,794,066 sq mi
"Roughly" indeed...
in France, for instance, it's a homonym for oui
Should have said "in French." French isn't only spoken in France, you know.
True, but they're only in it for the money.
The line between PC and Mac begins to blur...
The real dumb drones are the people who voted for that guy.
Yes, I just replied to my own post. Nobody else was going to, anyway.
The Bush administration seems to be full of those.
In a couple of days: Ballmer Babies Banned From Eating
In a week: Ballmer Eats Babies
No Google at all? That's harsh! Ballmer is such a monster.
mass migration from Windows is soon to follow
That guy is so delusional. It's sad, really.
There is something utterly wrong about the words Christian and Science being next to each other.
Novell will be around in 10 years. I doubt that companies like symantic, nortin, intuit, and AOL will. Yeah, people will eventually stop buying Symantic's Nortin AntaVirus.
...nuclear power plants are nowhere to be found since we're the world's largest producer of hydroelectric power but it wasn't always like this...
In 1968, after a nuclear meltdown in Charlemagne (Quebec's own Chernobyl accident), the government decided to ban nuclear power for fear of another disaster. Unfortunately, it was too late, since Celine Dion was unleashed to the world soon after that and the rest, as they say, is history...
Sounds like a badly written Uncyclopedia article or something.
"Of the 32.2 million citizens of Canada, 17.5 million are native English speakers, 7.7 million are native French-speakers and 5.2 million are native speakers of neither of Canada's two official languages." Source
7.7 million plus a few million who learned it as a second language...
90% of the population? Not really.
Her name is Caterina Fake? Caterina?!? Shyeah, right.
*Mothers Against Downloading Pr0n
How come there isn't a Car topic icon on Slashdot?
Sounds like the name of a battling robot that looks like an octopus and piles up its opponents.
More like "Speculation for Nerds."
GNOME 2.14?? I'm still using version 2.8!!