Lots of advertising plus greed can work, but the greed will also push more savvy customers away. Thankfully for busineses, a lot of customers aren't very savvy. Which is of course why Microsoft is still in business today.
As did I before I deployed last year (Army), but I still had to go and fire the real thing too. It was kind of cool though getting to fire a fake rifle at fake pop-up targets at a fake field on a fake summer's day while back in reality I was getting ready to deploy with a real rifle to potentially fire at real targets in a real desert from a real cold Fort Drum.
"Meesa no wait for poodoo reviews! Meesa gonna give bigsa clink-clink to franchise rightawaysa! What could go wrongsa?"
I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of English teachers suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened. u iz krayzee lolz. ooh fud! nom nom nom nom
Speaking of vegans, a vegan who drives an SUV directly emits less greenhouse gases than an herbivore who eats meat and commutes to work on a bicycle does indirectly. Cows emit far more greenhouse gas than any human ever would, obese or not.
So, me, a vegan with a bicycle and sleep apnea. The CPAP always gives me gas, so I think it evens out.:)
As am I. Honestly, as a guitar player, I find it more challenging to play the songs on lower difficulty levels. I almost always start out on hard or expert depending on the song and try to play it there. When I hear a song coming out of my TV speakers (especially when it's one that I already know how to play on a real six-string or know really well) and the notes I'm looking at on screen don't mesh, I actually do worse. I have to train myself to play what I see, not what I hear.
You can fight it all you want but the language is going to evolve whether you like it or not.
Proof positive: This same reply fifty years from now, when lolspeak has become the commonplace language of our time:
lolz, erreygrdles iz gud choiss, stoopid n00b. Frum da dicshunary:
i can has cut?
u grammer nazis r goin to jus has 2 accept teh fact dat teh werd iz legitimate part ov teh language nao. u can fight it all u wants but teh language iz goin 2 evolve whethr u liek it or not.WHETHR U LIEK IT OR NOT.
You know, you are getting more than Microsoft ever offered to you to pay for. What comes with the Mac version of OOo? Everything, including Base. What comes with the Mac version of Office 2008? I certainly don't see Access anywhere in the list. FileMaker Pro costs a pretty penny to get database support.
MS Office 2008 for Mac:$314.99 FileMaker Pro:$274.99 OpenOffice.org: $0.00
We have a winner folks. If I owned a Mac, I'd be more than happy to pay $0 versus $589.98. But if you still want to go the latter route, at least Amazon will ship it to you for free.
What we need is a chair throwing contest. I can see it now:
Ballmer vs. Knight: The Chair-Off Throwdown
Microsoft's Steve Ballmer and former NCAA Basketball Coach Bob Knight will square off in a fit of rage to see who can throw a chair the furthest. Watch as a Google exec riles up Ballmer while a ref makes yet another bad call against Knight! It all comes to you live, Saturday May 3, 2008 only on Pay-Per-View!
If you want to see really cool, take a cockroach in your college dorm room, microwave it until it dies, and leave it in the sealed container you caught it in.
If you're lucky (like I was), a week later, there will be little baby cockroaches running around the container that you can then microwave until they die!
Okay, it was cool ten years ago when I was a freshman in college anyway.
Look at my videos. I have a few from a storm overhead flying across America. They're relatively stationary. I'd give you a link, but I'm at work and they block YT. My user name is superslacker87.
Are apps like Firefox even installed with Ubuntu Server?
That was my point.
If you download the server, you're getting a command-line interface. However, you could just as easily do sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop (or kubuntu-desktop, etc.) and install a graphical front-end to your server. But that defeats the purpose of a server if you ask me.
FF is GUI, not CLI, therefore will have three years of support. Complain about having to support FF3 for three years, not five.
Well, if people are using their servers as intended, there won't be a reason to have FireFox installed on it. Servers are supported for five years, not desktop. Servers are meant to be headless and connected into remotely, correct? In which case, there is no need for FireFox 2, FireFox 3, or any web browser in the server support any time after April 24, 2011 when the desktop support cycle ends.
I'm not discounting the argument of FF2 vs. FF3, but if you're going to make the argument, at least make the claim of three years, not five.
You have to be a citizen to join the military to begin with. Is that so?
I guess I better go tell the Canadian I just spent a year in Iraq with that he can go home.
I don't know why your karma would suffer from this... there are some interesting parallels between theories concerning the technological singularity and the Biblical book of Revelation (at least in some peoples' opinions). Why not add another metaphorical spin to things? Well, for one thing, it's not the Book of Revelation, it's 2 Peter 3:10, but I digress.
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As did I before I deployed last year (Army), but I still had to go and fire the real thing too. It was kind of cool though getting to fire a fake rifle at fake pop-up targets at a fake field on a fake summer's day while back in reality I was getting ready to deploy with a real rifle to potentially fire at real targets in a real desert from a real cold Fort Drum.
Beauty and the Beast? What do you define as an "old Disney film"? That one came out in 1991.
But they're hungry! And I have extra small children who are exceptionally ignorant and need to cross the bridge!
Crap. I meant omnivore.
Speaking of vegans, a vegan who drives an SUV directly emits less greenhouse gases than an herbivore who eats meat and commutes to work on a bicycle does indirectly. Cows emit far more greenhouse gas than any human ever would, obese or not.
So, me, a vegan with a bicycle and sleep apnea. The CPAP always gives me gas, so I think it evens out. :)
SourceAs am I. Honestly, as a guitar player, I find it more challenging to play the songs on lower difficulty levels. I almost always start out on hard or expert depending on the song and try to play it there. When I hear a song coming out of my TV speakers (especially when it's one that I already know how to play on a real six-string or know really well) and the notes I'm looking at on screen don't mesh, I actually do worse. I have to train myself to play what I see, not what I hear.
Proof positive: This same reply fifty years from now, when lolspeak has become the commonplace language of our time:
lolz, erreygrdles iz gud choiss, stoopid n00b. Frum da dicshunary:
i can has cut?u grammer nazis r goin to jus has 2 accept teh fact dat teh werd iz legitimate part ov teh language nao. u can fight it all u wants but teh language iz goin 2 evolve whethr u liek it or not.WHETHR U LIEK IT OR NOT.
May as well be me. I have a few points to burn.
*AHEM*
I for one welcome our new alien overlords.
Especially if you're a "Defense Against the Dark Arts" teacher!
You know, you are getting more than Microsoft ever offered to you to pay for. What comes with the Mac version of OOo? Everything, including Base. What comes with the Mac version of Office 2008? I certainly don't see Access anywhere in the list. FileMaker Pro costs a pretty penny to get database support.
MS Office 2008 for Mac: $314.99
FileMaker Pro: $274.99
OpenOffice.org: $0.00
We have a winner folks. If I owned a Mac, I'd be more than happy to pay $0 versus $589.98. But if you still want to go the latter route, at least Amazon will ship it to you for free.
Use Tinyurl. http://tinyurl.com/6pzqw5
Alternatively, you could use an anchor tag.
What we need is a chair throwing contest. I can see it now:
Ballmer vs. Knight: The Chair-Off ThrowdownMicrosoft's Steve Ballmer and former NCAA Basketball Coach Bob Knight will square off in a fit of rage to see who can throw a chair the furthest. Watch as a Google exec riles up Ballmer while a ref makes yet another bad call against Knight! It all comes to you live, Saturday May 3, 2008 only on Pay-Per-View!
If you want to see really cool, take a cockroach in your college dorm room, microwave it until it dies, and leave it in the sealed container you caught it in.
If you're lucky (like I was), a week later, there will be little baby cockroaches running around the container that you can then microwave until they die!
Okay, it was cool ten years ago when I was a freshman in college anyway.
Hey, they still wonder the same thing about Vista!
Look at my videos. I have a few from a storm overhead flying across America. They're relatively stationary. I'd give you a link, but I'm at work and they block YT. My user name is superslacker87.
That was my point.
If you download the server, you're getting a command-line interface. However, you could just as easily do sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop (or kubuntu-desktop, etc.) and install a graphical front-end to your server. But that defeats the purpose of a server if you ask me.
FF is GUI, not CLI, therefore will have three years of support. Complain about having to support FF3 for three years, not five.
Well, if people are using their servers as intended, there won't be a reason to have FireFox installed on it. Servers are supported for five years, not desktop. Servers are meant to be headless and connected into remotely, correct? In which case, there is no need for FireFox 2, FireFox 3, or any web browser in the server support any time after April 24, 2011 when the desktop support cycle ends.
I'm not discounting the argument of FF2 vs. FF3, but if you're going to make the argument, at least make the claim of three years, not five.
sudo apt-get remove firefox && sudo apt-get install firefox-2
Not that difficult.
Well, now it won't be funny anymore... stupid new comment system I have to get used to.
I dunno. I'm still trying to figure out the air speed velocity of an unladen swallow.
I dunno. I'm still trying to