Thats because winrar is useful.
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It’s is not useful. It is fucking great.
Wait till you learn about 7zip…
7zip didn't exist when winrar was released... im pretty sure anyway...
Its kind of shit and always has been. Winrar love is pure nostalgia.
Its icon is good I will admit that.
That's absolutely hilarious. All the times I've either patched Winrar or ignored the 40 day subscription nagging did not matter for their bottom line at all.
All the times I've either patched Winrar or ignored the 40 day subscription nagging did not matter for their bottom line at all.
You individually? No. But RARLAB aren't saps; the "40-day limit"(TM) transforms their software from nagware into something valuable the user is "getting away with". If one or two stray consumers happen to purchase a license based off of that, then excellent. The real kicker, though, is that a culture where everyone uses WinRAR for creating and extracting archives is one where they can push a ton of business licenses – one of the main reasons e.g. Microsoft will often provide Office to universities at steep discounts. By using WinRAR, you act as a brick in the wall of WinRAR's (thankfully waning) hegemony.
They want you to feel like you're getting more value than you are out of a product that is near-strictly inferior to free and open-source software with a public domain compression algorithm like 7-Zip. This has been common knowledge for over a decade.
4.83 Million USD is quite a lot.
I wonder if Berlin Berlin is different than Berlin Germany
It's the city of Berlin in the state of Berlin (similar to New York City, NY).
The country Germany consists of 16 states.
I did not know that about Berlin. Thanks for the info
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The poop in my pants makes more money than OpenAI
apparently fecal donors can get 500 bucks per shit
More useful too.
There are lemonade stands making more money than OpenAI. Right now. In January. In sub-freezing weather.
Yes? They don't care it's an infinite money glitch where big corporations pretend that they are in a growth phase and give each other money by using shares that they can print at will.
Kinda like a rich person saying "You have more money than I do because you only have $100k in debt" to a normal person because they have a $2 million dollar loan for a house, but only has $500k in easily liquidated assets.
Ah man that takes me back,….to when windows was somewhat useable.
Windows got market power because they took the term "Personal Computer" seriously. It was yours, and you could put what you wanted on it. They are now heading down Apples path of proprietry ownership, without Apples flair.
Loving Linux Mint atm. Maybe it'll help me get more adventurous with other distros?
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I am also very old
Setting a pile of money on fire is more profitable then openai. Like you can not physically shovel enough to come close to even a tiny amount of what openai goes though.
Then I'll hurry up and buy some WinRAR stocks!
Maybe ChatGPT should get one of those super annoying nag messages to get you to pay up like WinRAR used to have. That ought to rake in the many billions they need... right?
I want to know what unprofitable businesses are still more profitable than WinRAR.
Absolutely brutal. I love it.
Are winrar memes the champion as far as long-lived memes? I think it might be the longest running internet meme I can think of.
profitable for whom?
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