I guess you're just trolling here. But come on. When you buy a box of MS Windows, are you expecting it to come with a mouse, and every other piece of hardware or accessory that you personally deem necessary?

I hated the one-button mouse too. But I thought we were talking about the OS.

If a one-button mouse included in the box with the computer presents too much of a barrier for you to accept using a superior OS, well, that's your prerogative I guess!

(This argument is like saying that roads are unusable, because pedestrians cross them once in awhile, thereby forcing the driver to make an unacceptably circuitous route on other roads. The sensible person would simply tolerate the 10 second delay for the pedestrian's departure, and then continue on.)

Since my time and productivity are worth money, the amount I have saved by using Mac OS X over Windows over that same period is orders of magnitude larger than the cost of Microsoft's OS.

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Same is true in the States and Canada, insofar as I understand the implications of "rights of privacy and publicity".

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Are you saying that you've had enough, and that we should always write phonetically?... or are you saying that yu'v had enuf, and that we shud alwayz rite foneticalee?

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Actually, it's called Mac OS X. (If that's what you're talking about.)

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Why are you guys all capitalizing "hub"? It's like noobs who write "MAC" when talking about modern Apple computers.

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The problem here is precisely BECAUSE the certificate is not using a null-terminated string; it is the Pascal-style behaviour which has facilitated the problem.

I think you're confused.

Uh, no, that's not at all what patents are for.

Patents are for implementations.

You can't patent, trademark or copyright an idea.

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Do you mean that they are paying you so it is their time to waste?

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Geese? Google is raising birds, too? No surprise I guess.

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"Nah i think your thinking of swine syphilis, again!"

I think "your" thinking of "you're", again.

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Seriously, why does this company keep getting its name into headlines? Who gives a shit what they feel a bunch of components might cost? Come on, shills. This is a do-nothing company that pisses its pants for publicity, and places like the Mac rumors sites and Slashdot lap it up and parrot their squawkings.

It requires no more than a grade-school education to understand that the price to design, manufature, market, support and service a product is greater than the sum of the wholesale cost of its physical components.

Enough.

Take this stupid company with their silly name out back, shoot it, and don't mention it again.

Dalai Linux!

Heh, "filmed".

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Congratulations; the Amiga and the Mac were already doing that in 1987 (or earlier).

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