Many Baen books are available on-line for free. They found that whenever they relesae a free book, sales of all books of that author increase and the sales of the free book takes off. The fact is that people like the value of a real book, while the online version gives them a chance to read some books in a series and evaluate the author.
So whether it makes sense or not is moot. Baen proved that free books increase sales enormously.
I think the only difference between 2k and XP has something to do with domain authentication. So unless you are deploying PCs in a large organization, the only 'improvement' in XP is the Telly Tubby GUI.
Actually, the level of carnage in Iraq, which is officially a war zone, is LESS than in some other 'peaceful' countries, for example South Africa and Brazil. So, yeah, the US and British armies should withdraw. They should be replaced with the South African and Brazilian police. They should have the place whipped into shape in no time...
Of course. We have a God given right to make a profit. Salaries are paid from profits. Think of all the little children who went hungry because this jackass disrupted our profits.
Now think of the drunken driver incident. The undertakers have to make a profit too. The drunken driver facilitated undertaker profits and that is an attenuating circumstance.
Not true. Refrigerators don't break. Companies still sell millions of them per year. CRT TVs don't break either and when last have you broken a hammer?
OK, maybe there are Administrators and Administrators - I don't know, but does Vista still have a default Anonymous account and an Everyone group like XP?
Yup - MS has totally cornered the crapware market. It is time for a new anti-trust trial demanding that the crapware department in MS should be split into two competing entities: Those responsible for viruses and those responsible for spyware.
VISTA: Viruses, Insecurity, Spyware, Trojans and Adware.
I'd love to see the CAPP/EAL4 configuration guide for Vista. It should probably list a couple hundred unnecessary processes that will be turned off in order to pass the qualification. I have used the list for WinXP to good effect - turn all the shit off and the desktop runs a lot faster without any loss of any features I need.
See this: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?Fa milyId=A7075319-CC3D-4420-A00B-8C9A7068AD54&displa ylang=en
Page 275 lists all the redundant processes in WinXP that can be turned off.
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For only M$5, I'll invent them a new one.
Many Baen books are available on-line for free. They found that whenever they relesae a free book, sales of all books of that author increase and the sales of the free book takes off. The fact is that people like the value of a real book, while the online version gives them a chance to read some books in a series and evaluate the author.
So whether it makes sense or not is moot. Baen proved that free books increase sales enormously.
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http://home.nycap.rr.com/useless/ponzi/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponzi_scheme
and here is the grand daddy of the modern ones:
http://www.montrealmirror.com/ARCHIVES/1997/10169
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amway
No idea, but in pyramid schemes - pardon, multilevel marketing - the majority always lose money somehow. It is the nature of the beast.
The alley cats will lose money. Same thing in any pyramid scheme.
NFS Client.
New TCP/IP stack that won't overrun or lock up for interminable periods anymore.
I think the only difference between 2k and XP has something to do with domain authentication. So unless you are deploying PCs in a large organization, the only 'improvement' in XP is the Telly Tubby GUI.
We don't need no US dopeheads. They can buy our BC Bud freely in their own cities and toke up down there, thank you very much...
Actually, the level of carnage in Iraq, which is officially a war zone, is LESS than in some other 'peaceful' countries, for example South Africa and Brazil. So, yeah, the US and British armies should withdraw. They should be replaced with the South African and Brazilian police. They should have the place whipped into shape in no time...
Of course. We have a God given right to make a profit. Salaries are paid from profits. Think of all the little children who went hungry because this jackass disrupted our profits.
Now think of the drunken driver incident. The undertakers have to make a profit too. The drunken driver facilitated undertaker profits and that is an attenuating circumstance.
Not true. Refrigerators don't break. Companies still sell millions of them per year. CRT TVs don't break either and when last have you broken a hammer?
"It's"?
OK, you must be an Engrish major...
'...blowing them to meat chunks...' Well, it was a market. Maybe they were hungry.
...actually, that is just an extension of the 'nose picking' behaviour observed in humans...
Even Baboons, which are considerably stupider than Chimpanzees, use rocks to crush shell-fish and have been observed throwing rocks in self defence.
then what the hell did they pay Novel M$140 for?
OK, maybe there are Administrators and Administrators - I don't know, but does Vista still have a default Anonymous account and an Everyone group like XP?
Yup - MS has totally cornered the crapware market. It is time for a new anti-trust trial demanding that the crapware department in MS should be split into two competing entities: Those responsible for viruses and those responsible for spyware.
VISTA: Viruses, Insecurity, Spyware, Trojans and Adware.
I'd love to see the CAPP/EAL4 configuration guide for Vista. It should probably list a couple hundred unnecessary processes that will be turned off in order to pass the qualification. I have used the list for WinXP to good effect - turn all the shit off and the desktop runs a lot faster without any loss of any features I need. See this: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?Fa milyId=A7075319-CC3D-4420-A00B-8C9A7068AD54&displa ylang=en
Page 275 lists all the redundant processes in WinXP that can be turned off.
this made me snort my Coke and now I need a new keyboard, cause the keys are stuck...
Sorry to burst your bubble, but the Google paper claims that temperature has no effect on the failure rate.
Hmm - I had a HDD fail on me today, while making a backup image. It didn't like all the reading activity it seems. Sigh...
wasn't real!? How can that be? Everything on the movie screen must be true. The camera never lies...
Should have been obvious really - give a dog a bad name.
You forgot one: You can buy fish 'n chips and read yesterday's newspaper for free.