The "Something else entirely" category has more alternative options then the ones listed!

My fav is a 1.5 liter enamel mug I got while in high school. I promised myself only one cup with every study session :-)

They no longer have to keep employees happy, since the world economic crisis force employees to hang on to what they got.

It will open as soon as the crisis are over and power is back in the employees court :-)

Especially for something like rugby

This is insane! It's like we are going back to the dark ages...

I just can't imagine that there are people sitting some where in a room that can actually think of ways like this to milk innocent people for more money.

Ah - and now you will tell me that the devil made them do it - and for once we all might agree on /. :-)

I absolutely agree with you. I have my own idea of "enterprise" ready but it never seem to be the same definition the "enterprise" software vendors use.

A lot of them argue around the support angle - what bs! We deploy a number of solutions in our company built on open source software stacks and the support we get from the open source community is every single time so much better then the support you pay for.

It boils down to this: "you can't buy loyalty but you can always trust a developer loyal to his code".

+1

I couldn't have said it better :-)

One lesson I have learned the hard way is simply that once you offer a service for free you can not charge for it in the future. You loose too many clients that way.

In this case, however, it appears to me that this is a good way for them to get rid of unwanted users. They are not loosing their main base. It would be interesting for me to see what the user base looks like geographically - I suspect the bulk of their users are from the "free" countries.

Whatever the actual reason - there are still plenty of options. No love lost here...

Thanks for that... Makes sense then. Scary stuff.

A quick Google shows BIOS malware going back some time, so I don't know what so different from this one...

I saw an old Mythbusters episode the other day about various items they put in an open fire to see what happens. Bullets was one of the items. The results obtained there is very similar to what happened here with the only difference the cause.

It's confirmed then - there is no medicine for stupidity :-)

I still use my 48G, but not on a daily bases anymore. Wonderful piece of hardware though!

Since I almost always have a terminal open these days, "$ calc 2+2" is just so much faster then 10 clicks before you can even start your math :-)

making copies of games and putting it on torrents should be perfectly legal. Payment on activation anyone?

You are grasping at straws and your conclusions doesn't make any sense. I think once you actually do something like this in practice (interview, background check, searching on the web etc.) you will see that you need to put together all the parts to get the whole picture. Obviously you can't make conclusions just on one source of information - or do we need to spell that out to you every time?