Considering some of Microsoft's business practices, I would have to agree that it WAS unfair for them to have to compete against blackmail, false advertising, mis-represented facts, client lock-in and downright illegal tactics.
Not only that, but if you make a typo in the first one, it assumes the second one was wrong deletes it for you. Then you have to delete the first one, then type it again twice!
You would seriously allow a school official (or anyone below a police officer) to strip search your child in the same room or even the next room?!? What the hell is wrong with you?
99 percent of parents I know would physically stop any such action from occurring, and I don't blame them at all!
In Canada schools are NOT allowed to search personal property of children (even in high school). If they suspect the child has something dangerous (gun), they must call the police even to search a backpack.
There is even some debate over whether or not lockers are ok to search, currently the protocol is that you can't.
1) adult goes in the bathroom and flushes ALL the toilets
2) 2 adults (never put a single adult with a child or you get accusations) go in the bathroom with the child
3) child goes in the stall ALONE, adults wait outside the stall
4) child is NOT allowed to flush
5) adult checks toilet after child has used it
It's not that hard people. As long as they don't flush (which is EASY to hear) and you watch them wash their hands (no problem there), you are good. If anyone suspects something was left in the bathroom it is easy to check.
Unless your sign the agreement before or at the time of purchase it is not legally binding!
I have never heard of a single case of a "contract after point of sale" that has ever been successfully enforced. For a contract to be binding, both parties must benefit, but since the agreement was not signed at purchase time, it is, in affect, a separate contract. Not only is this separate contract void due to it being one-sided, but it was neither signed nor agreed upon by both parties.
Rule of thumb: if a restriction is not made clear and agreed to at the point of sale, it is not legally binding!
Not that they always use it wisely, but without those taxes you would have no roads, no hospitals, no police officers, no firemen, no courts, no healthcare (Canada anyway), no international security, etc, etc.
Have you Americans already started to pretend the patriot act doesn't exist? It's not about the Internet per say, but sure as hell went against half the constitution!
You mention not being able to audit the Nokia N line. Are you also including the N770/N800/N810 models? They all run maemo, which is open except for a few drivers. Not only that, but people have run debian and ubuntu-jaunty-remix on them. I even saw a tutorial to put KDE on the existing maemo base (removing hildon).
The N810 is not a cellphone (no gsm/cdma chip), but it still have wifi/bluetooth with skype,etc pre-installed and the physical keyboard is very nice to have.
did you not notice the word "WORLD" in that sentence. There are countries in the world where you don't really have a choice. For that matter, there are parts of the world that don't even work on a monetary basis.
Just because someone doesn't have money, doesn't mean it is their fault!
Exactly. Cell phones and Cellular connectivity should be handled the same way as computers and the internet. You should be able to buy ANY phone without talking to a telco, then take that phone and use it on ANY compatible network. In fact, the carrier shouldn't even need to know what type of phone it is, just the serial number for identification and the protocol (3g, gsm, etc) for connectivity.
It's time to rip the telcos and the phone manufacturers apart and force them to supply their products separately.
If someone borrowed your car and backed into a telephone pole, you would be upset. If they paid for the damages, you would probably forgive them. But the question is: Would you trust them with your car..?
Blaming enterprise software for your inability to install FireFox is nothing but a cop-out. The solution to this problem is so simple, I can't believe people even see it as a problem anymore.
Install Firefox, then install ieTab. ieTab can be set to do nothing until you browse to a any of a list of domains. Once you enter a domain, ieTab takes over and runs that tab inside a native IE browser. IE is seamlessly embedded inside the tab, and the user won't even notice.
The best part is that once a lot of companies do this, the enterprise software companies can start developing their software to standards, since most companies will already be using FireFox. Using IE for every website, just because of one domain (usually local network) requiring IE is just stupid
This whole "We can't use FireFox because of enterprise app X" is bullshit. People need to learn how to properly manage corporate computer systems without coming up with these pathetic excuses for not doing their jobs properly.
The demo works, but they implemented it VERY badly. The worst thing you can do to a stereoscopic image, let alone a video is to add distractions that cause your eyes to move. Those damn walls and window borders that flash across the camera at high speeds at close range completely destroy the effect.
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Considering some of Microsoft's business practices, I would have to agree that it WAS unfair for them to have to compete against blackmail, false advertising, mis-represented facts, client lock-in and downright illegal tactics.
Not only that, but if you make a typo in the first one, it assumes the second one was wrong deletes it for you. Then you have to delete the first one, then type it again twice!
You would seriously allow a school official (or anyone below a police officer) to strip search your child in the same room or even the next room?!? What the hell is wrong with you?
99 percent of parents I know would physically stop any such action from occurring, and I don't blame them at all!
In Canada schools are NOT allowed to search personal property of children (even in high school). If they suspect the child has something dangerous (gun), they must call the police even to search a backpack.
There is even some debate over whether or not lockers are ok to search, currently the protocol is that you can't.
1) adult goes in the bathroom and flushes ALL the toilets
2) 2 adults (never put a single adult with a child or you get accusations) go in the bathroom with the child
3) child goes in the stall ALONE, adults wait outside the stall
4) child is NOT allowed to flush
5) adult checks toilet after child has used it
It's not that hard people. As long as they don't flush (which is EASY to hear) and you watch them wash their hands (no problem there), you are good. If anyone suspects something was left in the bathroom it is easy to check.
Bah, you missed that last 5 minutes where you find out the guy is real and the R/C controller is actually controlling HIM!
Unless your sign the agreement before or at the time of purchase it is not legally binding!
I have never heard of a single case of a "contract after point of sale" that has ever been successfully enforced. For a contract to be binding, both parties must benefit, but since the agreement was not signed at purchase time, it is, in affect, a separate contract. Not only is this separate contract void due to it being one-sided, but it was neither signed nor agreed upon by both parties.
Rule of thumb: if a restriction is not made clear and agreed to at the point of sale, it is not legally binding!
Not that they always use it wisely, but without those taxes you would have no roads, no hospitals, no police officers, no firemen, no courts, no healthcare (Canada anyway), no international security, etc, etc.
Wow, I've never heard such good advice from a "you're small" joke before...
How is Amsterdam's marijuana supply artificially limited?
Because your cellphone plan should not dictate what numbers you are *allowed* to call.
Unless you explicitly tell them to block such numbers (for a kid's phone for example).
And here he is asking a bunch of guys that turned their cars into server racks and stacked network switches in front of the garage door...
Productivity is inversely proportionate to the abundance and quality of porn relevant to your lifestyle.
Unfortunately, gay porn is becoming more and more common and accepted, so you're going to see some of those gay programmers start to slide...
My guess is that if google is suggesting porn, then it is probably for a reason...
Sir! Sir! I type "hot naked" into google and it suggested girls! We must stop this monstrosity!!!!
So it's ok to monitor and sensor the ignorant?
Have you Americans already started to pretend the patriot act doesn't exist? It's not about the Internet per say, but sure as hell went against half the constitution!
You are using a couple of idiots who happen to agree with the idiot move of their government and comparing it to a highly organized terrorism unit...?
Paranoid much?
You mention not being able to audit the Nokia N line. Are you also including the N770/N800/N810 models? They all run maemo, which is open except for a few drivers. Not only that, but people have run debian and ubuntu-jaunty-remix on them. I even saw a tutorial to put KDE on the existing maemo base (removing hildon). The N810 is not a cellphone (no gsm/cdma chip), but it still have wifi/bluetooth with skype,etc pre-installed and the physical keyboard is very nice to have.
Umm, that was not Iran....
did you not notice the word "WORLD" in that sentence. There are countries in the world where you don't really have a choice. For that matter, there are parts of the world that don't even work on a monetary basis.
Just because someone doesn't have money, doesn't mean it is their fault!
Wild guess, but you're American aren't you?
Exactly. Cell phones and Cellular connectivity should be handled the same way as computers and the internet. You should be able to buy ANY phone without talking to a telco, then take that phone and use it on ANY compatible network. In fact, the carrier shouldn't even need to know what type of phone it is, just the serial number for identification and the protocol (3g, gsm, etc) for connectivity. It's time to rip the telcos and the phone manufacturers apart and force them to supply their products separately.
A lot of people in the world could work a thousand years and not manage to save up $22..
There, fixed that for you
Don't confuse forgiveness with trust.
If someone borrowed your car and backed into a telephone pole, you would be upset. If they paid for the damages, you would probably forgive them. But the question is: Would you trust them with your car..?
Blaming enterprise software for your inability to install FireFox is nothing but a cop-out. The solution to this problem is so simple, I can't believe people even see it as a problem anymore.
Install Firefox, then install ieTab. ieTab can be set to do nothing until you browse to a any of a list of domains. Once you enter a domain, ieTab takes over and runs that tab inside a native IE browser. IE is seamlessly embedded inside the tab, and the user won't even notice.
The best part is that once a lot of companies do this, the enterprise software companies can start developing their software to standards, since most companies will already be using FireFox. Using IE for every website, just because of one domain (usually local network) requiring IE is just stupid
This whole "We can't use FireFox because of enterprise app X" is bullshit. People need to learn how to properly manage corporate computer systems without coming up with these pathetic excuses for not doing their jobs properly.
The demo works, but they implemented it VERY badly. The worst thing you can do to a stereoscopic image, let alone a video is to add distractions that cause your eyes to move. Those damn walls and window borders that flash across the camera at high speeds at close range completely destroy the effect.