Take it a step further and require an annual renewal. Why wait 25 years if some fool can't make good use of their copyright?

Might be true in small companies. Big shops (even medium shops, that I've worked with) like to use a standard image. New machines are either wiped and rebuilt on arrival or come wiped in the first place.

-100%. Bandwidth wants to be free!

it's not a pizza box at all, it is an actual blade server and requires a bladecenter... specifically a BladeCenter H, HT or S. With the H, you can get 14 of these babies in 9U of rack space, though. Make sure your cooling is up to the task!

It's furries in reverse!

"Account has been suspended"

I've just upgraded my T61 laptop today. Had no issues to speak of, everything went smoothly, and I'm up and running 9.10. Now, also today I made some changes to my partitions, and now my win 7 partition doesn't quite work right (boots sort of but doesn't login) so there you are. Guess I'll be fixing that install, but Ubuntu 9.10 is here to stay... for now.

and here is why (from wikipedia) English-language editions of Scrabble contain 100 letter tiles, in the following distribution: * 2 blank tiles (scoring 0 points)
* 1 point: E ×12, A ×9, I ×9, O ×8, N ×6, R ×6, T ×6, L ×4, S ×4, U ×4
* 2 points: D ×4, G ×3
* 3 points: B ×2, C ×2, M ×2, P ×2
* 4 points: F ×2, H ×2, V ×2, W ×2, Y ×2
* 5 points: K ×1
* 8 points: J ×1, X ×1
* 10 points: Q ×1, Z ×1

scrabble tiles pulled out of a hat is a bad example :)
They are not evenly distributed, so you'll have a higher occurrence of certain letters (namely the vowels and other common letters like s.)

The anorexic ones don't reproduce.

The people a construction worker works and speaks with are (probably) less likely to try to kill them. Not that I'm saying this excuses assholeish cops.

Until the teleporter is invented. Then we'll all be jobless.

It doesn't matter to them if their software breaks the upgrade... they get to blame MS :)

Ok, so we have 2 responses here... one says that 10% of users are pirates. The other says 10% of users aren't pirates.
So I took a moment to look up the information available: http://2dboy.com/2008/11/13/90/
Maybe it's accurate, maybe it's not, but I'd like to know where the "only 10% are pirates" guy got his information from. The game has good reviews, no DRM, and is fairly popular so it seems all the usual arguments for a high rate of piracy are out the window, leaving behind only "we're a bunch of cheapskates." Oh well.