Why would anyone in his right mind pay for simple and obvious 'inventions' that are based on ancient bronze age technology? So manufacturers just ignore the things and wait for stupid patents to expire.
Actually they are quite easy to clean. I just light it and run it at maximum for 15 minutes. Whatever is left after that doesn't matter...
BTW, this is best done after you finished cooking your steak, since it takes a long time to cool down to a usable temperature. Don't let the barby stand dirty.
Why would pottery be more expensive than steel? How exactly did this 4000 year old technology get patented in the first place?
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Well, what need to do is bring back external combustion engines. Then we can simply burn anything: Garden waste, wood, coal, anything that will burn. There is enough coal on this planet to fire up steam engines for thousands of years...
Just look at the amount of money the US spends fighting latter day crusades in the Middle East. Yeah I know they came over here and picked the fight, but there is no shortage of money in the churches.
iPods are illegal aliens in the MS campus. If they learn MS DRM and pay a fine, then they will be allowed to stay, but first they have to return to Apple for 1 year.
Nope. You are allowed to play the thing. If playing requires making a temporary copy in memory then that is OK, because that is how a digital player works.
An analogue player also makes copies - in the wires and in the air. In an analogue system the wires and air constitutes a delay line so your loudspeakers make an infinite number of copies between the paper cones and your ears. Even echoes off the walls in a room are copies.
Wrong - the price diff is thousands of dollars once you add all the software that you don't have to buy anymore. A PC with only Windows on it is pretty useless. What are you going to use to edit a document or a picture - Notepad???
It took me years to figure out how to draw a straight line with Gimp (The magical shift key!), but I never use Photoshop anymore. Gimp does what I need and that's the way I like it...
No, the anti-trust proceedings took care of that years ago already. Some good actually did come of the trial. MS isn't nearly as aggressive anymore as they used to be.
I'd love to see support costs after a few months of selling these. Dell's support costs of Windows must be huge, since they likely get many machines coming back for repair with nothing 'wrong' except for 10,000 viruses and other crapware running on it.
Yeah, I'm sure Dell will gladly refund you the $3 for the Windows license - you can't even buy an icecream cone for that.
Buy the machine with Ubuntu preinstalled and install Win98SE or WinXP in Qemu to do your tax return once a year. Why waste your time on installing? Get a life and go canoeing or something - it is summer ferkrissakes - it actually friggen snowed today - sigh...
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Hmm, that may have been useful 50 years ago. It is somewhat like discoving a new way to make stone axe.
Why would anyone in his right mind pay for simple and obvious 'inventions' that are based on ancient bronze age technology? So manufacturers just ignore the things and wait for stupid patents to expire.
Actually they are quite easy to clean. I just light it and run it at maximum for 15 minutes. Whatever is left after that doesn't matter...
BTW, this is best done after you finished cooking your steak, since it takes a long time to cool down to a usable temperature. Don't let the barby stand dirty.
Why would pottery be more expensive than steel? How exactly did this 4000 year old technology get patented in the first place?
Well, what need to do is bring back external combustion engines. Then we can simply burn anything: Garden waste, wood, coal, anything that will burn. There is enough coal on this planet to fire up steam engines for thousands of years...
Cool, but which god?
Just look at the amount of money the US spends fighting latter day crusades in the Middle East. Yeah I know they came over here and picked the fight, but there is no shortage of money in the churches.
You don't *have* to be crazy to live in Kentucky, but I'm sure it helps a lot.
so heavy that he cannot lift it?
Shortly after Man created God in his image, some Greek wise ass thought of that one - literally a classic.
Why on earth do they need to build a museum - Do they not have enough churches already?
Flexible porn?
iPods are illegal aliens in the MS campus. If they learn MS DRM and pay a fine, then they will be allowed to stay, but first they have to return to Apple for 1 year.
Nope. You are allowed to play the thing. If playing requires making a temporary copy in memory then that is OK, because that is how a digital player works.
An analogue player also makes copies - in the wires and in the air. In an analogue system the wires and air constitutes a delay line so your loudspeakers make an infinite number of copies between the paper cones and your ears. Even echoes off the walls in a room are copies.
One inch? Must be an American. Six inches is the norm in the rest of the world...
If you crack the protection before the product is released, have you broken any law?
Wrong - the price diff is thousands of dollars once you add all the software that you don't have to buy anymore. A PC with only Windows on it is pretty useless. What are you going to use to edit a document or a picture - Notepad???
All versions of Windows. Even DOS sucked less than Windows, since at the time we expected less of it.
It took me years to figure out how to draw a straight line with Gimp (The magical shift key!), but I never use Photoshop anymore. Gimp does what I need and that's the way I like it...
No, the anti-trust proceedings took care of that years ago already. Some good actually did come of the trial. MS isn't nearly as aggressive anymore as they used to be.
I'd love to see support costs after a few months of selling these. Dell's support costs of Windows must be huge, since they likely get many machines coming back for repair with nothing 'wrong' except for 10,000 viruses and other crapware running on it.
Yeah, I'm sure Dell will gladly refund you the $3 for the Windows license - you can't even buy an icecream cone for that.
Buy the machine with Ubuntu preinstalled and install Win98SE or WinXP in Qemu to do your tax return once a year. Why waste your time on installing? Get a life and go canoeing or something - it is summer ferkrissakes - it actually friggen snowed today - sigh...
Nope, it is much better to install Windows in Qemu on Linux than to dual boot.
The Conexant modem works with Ndiswrapper. I have an Inspiron 1200 and has been running Linux on it for years. Everything works.
No, it is the hardware support. Inspiron notebooks work purrfectly with Linux, so it is the best hardware to start with.
Dell experimented with Linux desktops before and they sell train loads of Linux servers, so they know what they are doing.