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exactly...
the only slight difference is that Apple HAS the capabilities for innovation - which of course doesn't diminuish their abilities to screw customers the same way M$ does...

Someone please do me a favour and name one single product that has been developed by M$ from the ground up, only one single...

cheers, Tom

numerous problem forums

well, the bottom line I think is, that as far as China is concerned, no body is ever going to get too much legit sales there. I mean, I'm from Taiwan and that isn't exactly the same as China, but Taiwan has Chinese culture. And it seems to me, that the pirating problem is more of a cultural nature for Chinese countries. In Taiwan, you NEVER see anyone with legit software, period. The most you can get them to buy is a book on computers, or a magazine.

It somehow doesn't work for Chinese people to buy invisible information written onto an insignificant little disk. Doesn't justify pirating everything, but it kind of mkaes sense.

A friend of mine found the same thing right through the Middle East. He was really *trying* to buy legit software but just couldn't find anywhere that sold it !

The exceptions were Israel and also Dubai. But Dubai is mainly catering to western media and military so it's not quite the same.

Someone please do me a favour and name one single product that has been developed by M$ from the ground up, only one single...

I thought the original ms-dos was written by BG himself, but hell no, it's also bought-in

Kensuguro,

Didn't I hear something about the government cracking down on pirated music in China?

Superfluous emoticons have reached new depths. I see a trend here.

The Orangutans at the National Zoo are learning to communicate through the use of symbols:

"We are looking at the ability of apes to use abstract symbols in a concrete way,"

http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Publications/ ... onkeys.cfm

I noticed when I visited that the apes use a Macintosh. I think this says something about the type of consumer Apple targets.

Braincell!...

Mac is very strong graphically, and it shows

Not interested in spending my money on Microsoft at all, I'm looking forward to hear more on the Linux project. I think it leans very close to the spirit of this community, hope it gets rolling sooner or later!

How about trying out Dynebolic or Demudi for a change of all the candy graphics?

Amen!

I've found XP to be an excellent operating system - stable & friendly & reasonably priced. Looks like I'm the only one

But this thread does confuse me. What are all the anti-Microsoft people using ? I didn't think Linux was really up to general PC & DAW use yet. Have I missed something ?

they all must have a mac running under the table? come out guys...
( open goal )


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SGI Indigo2 here =P

dArKr3zIn wrote:
Why on earth can a machine not accept more than ~10-12 TCP/IP connections?

Not sure if I agree with that one...I'm coding an embedded DOS system with > 20 active TCP/IP connections, all connecting to simulators running on my dev machine. Solid as a rock (well, since altering the damned serial comms library such that it doesn't disable all interrupts which meant that the TCP/IP stack wasn't being serviced by the timer interrupt...but that's another story).

Royston

Hi Royston,

There is a limit to the number of network connections to log into a central server box, for example. I can't remember the exact amount, but I think it's between 10 and 12. We encounter this problem at work every day (we're waiting for an opportunity to set up our main in-house server with Linux).