I forsee something out of Microsoft's home of the future.
"Identify yourself student."
"William Johnsen"
"State name again."
"William Jonhson"
"General protection fault E Six Nine B Four Seven Seven Two A Nine Four B A One Three D, dumping physical memory.... Now rebooting MS School 7.2 Professional" (lights go out)
While your profits will double at the current price, who's to say they won't increase even more if you lower the price a tad?
That sort of theory works well for candy bars (to the detriment of public health mind you).
I'd consider razors a somewhat fixed market. Consumers aren't going to start shaving all day because a pack is a buck cheaper, in fact a buck today for something you don't get horribly often could be seen as negligible.
You're throwing generic theory at me, we do have a specific subject here.
And that is one more job for us humans too. Like the economy isn't bad enough. Might as well replace the whole workforce with a small shell script while you're at it...
Those savings will translate to lower prices for you. What can possibly be wrong about that?
Umm, the market bears the current prices, why should they go lower?
Replace "you" with "the store" and you have a point, from the perspective of "the store". Maybe thats why they leapt on this now that I think about it...:-)
Tactics like "phoning home" and convoluted registration methods, dongles and other nuissaances only irritate paying customers and likely don't stop any piracy at all.
Actually theres this thing called "cracking" the program that'll make it stop doing that annoying crap. See your local pirate for more information.:-)
Any suggestions on what would be some good Cube games to pick up?
Super Monkey Ball (if you like high-altitude monkey death) TimeSplitters 2 (if you like being chased by flaming monkey death) Eternal Darkness (no monkeys, fairly easy to finish, coincidence?) Blast Corps 2 (hard to find, I know it rocks though, a giant monkey robot is a bonus vehicle, this time the truck is actively homing in on the buildings and contains the unexploited plotlines of BC1, having the same result as the nukes if released)
The big N balances SW and HW, whereas Sony and MS have made videogaming revolve around the hardware alone.
I think Nintendo made well balanced hardware and puts out games of medium-high quailty.
Sony made hardware based on marketing (blue LED, promises of a ninth generation model that will rape your senses with various infeasable marketspeak based features, you think they'll ever deny that the PS3 chip is able to shoot magic? Now do you think they'll figure out texture filtering next round (just maybe)? How about load times (I have a hat waiting to be eaten)?) and a massive catalog of hit and miss and really miss and please I'll pay you to take this from me software.
Microsoft has money, they made a box based on money, they get software development by throwing money around. It outputs pretty, its made by the devil, and unplugged it makes a nice set of blunt weapons.
Summary: Nintendo serious game company, Sony psycho marketers with a following, Microsoft bleeds money with trial and error.
All I know it that the new feature of ext3 I hate is the one where if you delete a file then the filesystem wipes out any way for you to conveniently relocate the file's associated blocks and get the file back.
At least with the advanced Amiga filesystems theres a low overhead last-so-many-files-deleted dir that such mistakes can be undone with.
The latest Babylon 5 spinoff had some pretty badass revenue potential when it wasn't being pitted againt major sports events. (the one before it had some interesting episodes due too)
I really want to know whats going on with Sci Fi...
Can I smack you around for spelling Asimov like that?
Or should I just turn around and misspell Hienlen?:-)
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My point was that something has to happen in the GNU world to keep Longhorn from being adopted on a massive scale.
We (ie, everyone but me;-) have to put the alternative together and launch it.
It needs to be able to create a userspace on an NTFS partition for demo purposes. It needs killer apps, ready to use. It needs WINE, to keep people happyish during/after their conversion. It sadly needs to default to an enhanced windows like interface. It needs to hook users on being able to control things better than Windows is generally capable of (so Windows looks more and more crippled to them). And it needs to be something that average people can migrate to more or less on their own.
Sounds vaguely like Knoppix, needs a bit more work though.
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Why do people routinely submit NYT articles?
Why are there laws that say I can't kill people, even when I have an excuse?
How about all the stuff the Xiph, umm, org, is working on.
Ogg Speex is actively developed last I checked.
A certain Narn said the future isn't what it used to be. I think he suggested we go back. :-)
I forsee something out of Microsoft's home of the future.
.... Now rebooting MS School 7.2 Professional" (lights go out)
"Identify yourself student."
"William Johnsen"
"State name again."
"William Jonhson"
"General protection fault E Six Nine B Four Seven Seven Two A Nine Four B A One Three D, dumping physical memory
The pinto is also more likely to be crashed while using your newfound bandwidth to get porn home.
Looks like you just took an average boolean value and tacked on a bullshit bit.
Sounds like you're stuck in AND $02 mode.
While your profits will double at the current price, who's to say they won't increase even more if you lower the price a tad?
That sort of theory works well for candy bars (to the detriment of public health mind you).
I'd consider razors a somewhat fixed market. Consumers aren't going to start shaving all day because a pack is a buck cheaper, in fact a buck today for something you don't get horribly often could be seen as negligible.
You're throwing generic theory at me, we do have a specific subject here.
And that is one more job for us humans too. Like the economy isn't bad enough. Might as well replace the whole workforce with a small shell script while you're at it...
Those savings will translate to lower prices for you. What can possibly be wrong about that?
:-)
Umm, the market bears the current prices, why should they go lower?
Replace "you" with "the store" and you have a point, from the perspective of "the store". Maybe thats why they leapt on this now that I think about it...
Tactics like "phoning home" and convoluted registration methods, dongles and other nuissaances only irritate paying customers and likely don't stop any piracy at all.
:-)
Actually theres this thing called "cracking" the program that'll make it stop doing that annoying crap. See your local pirate for more information.
Why is RAR popular? Its really annoying to get a hold of, its near impossible to find free when it is found, etc.
Isn't the fricking quicktime already compressed?
I need to replace my HMID...
Blast Corps 2 lives only in dreams.
Blast Corps was the game that sold me on the N64, I'd be willing to do alot to get hold of a sequel.
Any suggestions on what would be some good Cube games to pick up?
Super Monkey Ball (if you like high-altitude monkey death)
TimeSplitters 2 (if you like being chased by flaming monkey death)
Eternal Darkness (no monkeys, fairly easy to finish, coincidence?)
Blast Corps 2 (hard to find, I know it rocks though, a giant monkey robot is a bonus vehicle, this time the truck is actively homing in on the buildings and contains the unexploited plotlines of BC1, having the same result as the nukes if released)
The big N balances SW and HW, whereas Sony and MS have made videogaming revolve around the hardware alone.
I think Nintendo made well balanced hardware and puts out games of medium-high quailty.
Sony made hardware based on marketing (blue LED, promises of a ninth generation model that will rape your senses with various infeasable marketspeak based features, you think they'll ever deny that the PS3 chip is able to shoot magic? Now do you think they'll figure out texture filtering next round (just maybe)? How about load times (I have a hat waiting to be eaten)?) and a massive catalog of hit and miss and really miss and please I'll pay you to take this from me software.
Microsoft has money, they made a box based on money, they get software development by throwing money around. It outputs pretty, its made by the devil, and unplugged it makes a nice set of blunt weapons.
Summary:
Nintendo serious game company,
Sony psycho marketers with a following,
Microsoft bleeds money with trial and error.
To legally become public domain it has to placed there by a person with authority over the info.
If you can't find a source of authority then I don't see how it will escape the limbo its in now, regardless of distribution.
Just how I see it.
If thats your only holdup, then its ready.
I want one of those MP3 servers. :-)
All I know it that the new feature of ext3 I hate is the one where if you delete a file then the filesystem wipes out any way for you to conveniently relocate the file's associated blocks and get the file back.
At least with the advanced Amiga filesystems theres a low overhead last-so-many-files-deleted dir that such mistakes can be undone with.
Why depleted?
:-)
Theres extra security if you can say "STOP THAT MAN WITH THE HAIR FALLING OUT!"
Also wouldn't need a powered backlight.
The latest Babylon 5 spinoff had some pretty badass revenue potential when it wasn't being pitted againt major sports events. (the one before it had some interesting episodes due too)
I really want to know whats going on with Sci Fi...
after surviving the cultural shock of going through dselect the first time, now I won't accept anyhing less
Accept more,
grab aptitude,
learn aptitude,
love aptitude.
Now let's say it was running any modern distro. Could I make it work? Sure. Would I have caught my plane?
Assuming you had the synapses to grab ssh access before you left, a plane wouldn't be much of an issue.
(take a flight, go home, take a wired laptap to the shitter with you and bang away until you hear your lungs hitting water)
Can I smack you around for spelling Asimov like that?
:-)
Or should I just turn around and misspell Hienlen?
My point was that something has to happen in the GNU world to keep Longhorn from being adopted on a massive scale.
;-) have to put the alternative together and launch it.
We (ie, everyone but me
It needs to be able to create a userspace on an NTFS partition for demo purposes.
It needs killer apps, ready to use.
It needs WINE, to keep people happyish during/after their conversion.
It sadly needs to default to an enhanced windows like interface.
It needs to hook users on being able to control things better than Windows is generally capable of (so Windows looks more and more crippled to them).
And it needs to be something that average people can migrate to more or less on their own.
Sounds vaguely like Knoppix, needs a bit more work though.