I believe in God you twit. You atheists are worse than the religious nuts, oh wait, you _are_ religious nuts! I'm not American, though, so I must be substandard anyway. Me and my silly God, that is.
I stand corrected by your pedantical hairsplitting
There was no pedantics or hairsplitting involved. You just changed your criteria after the fact when you were pointed out to be wrong. Besides bnetd isn't even just the only example one can come up with for end-users being sued for breaking a EULA.
If you consider reverse engineering to be end-user behaviour, then I am wrong.
Good to admit you are wrong. Secondly, the people reverse engineering Battle.Net were end users of the actual Blizzard software.
Of course, I will not even try to convince a/. autistic what an end-user is.
Ooooh, ice burn! Man, I'm going to go cry to my mommy that some basement-dwelling troll burned me on./.
I didn't add criteria, I still insist that end users do not reverse engineer their software. Adding the word "typical" is changing my criteria? I have no need to argue or try to convince you otherwise.
I understand that in your narrow/. world end users reverse engineer their software. I said it before: you are right and I am wrong. I have no interest in arguing about corner cases with you.
I stand corrected by your pedantical hairsplitting. If you consider reverse engineering to be end-user behaviour, then I am wrong. Of course, I will not even try to convince a/. autistic what an end-user is.
Then you obviously don't understand the purpose of the EULA. The EULA is not legal protection in the sense that the company will sue the end user for breach. It is for legal protection in case one makes a claim against the company that they took no measures to protect A, B, and C. In other words, it is a defensive measure, not an offensive measure. It just reads as offensive because, well, we all know what the best defense is...
Other than the fact that the size of the Earth appears as three times the size of the sun on the moon, I did know that. I mentioned that it was a similar effect, not the same cause. In Hebrew you could call the effect a "diamond ring" as the sun looks like a diamond and the moon completes the ring.
It's even better than a solar eclipse as seen from earth because the earth's atmosphere diffracts light from the sun, causing a ring of light to appear around the planet. Very cool.
The moon's craters and mountains cause the same effect in lunar solar eclipses, no?
Agreed, Windows is better for business, in every sense. That's why I don't recommend it for _most_ users. I want to use an OS that is good for the consumer, not an OS that is good for the businesses supporting it.
Get 'er a Mac. Or if you'll install it for her, get her Linux.
Ha! My 74-year old mother in law, who thinks that big blue E is the Internet, and does not realize that their exist directories other than the desktop, managed to install Ubuntu herself! Granted I downloaded and burned the disc, but she did the install herself.
The install is no longer the major hurdle in Linux adoption today.
When looking at where else all those unlicensed users would go if they didn't become legal Windows users, Apple doesn't really come into it much. People with illegal copies of Windows would typically either be cheapskates or live in a developing country - neither of which are really Apples typical customer base. Linux on the other hand is better placed to pick them up if MS gets too heavy on them.
I live in a developed country where nobody uses a licensed version of Windows. Even at my university, where we can get licensed copies of Windows for _free_, everyone uses pirated software and the faculty student helpers give out pirated discs. Why? My guess is that no one _respects_ software licenses existence at all. The other reason might have to do with a one-click install vs. a headache install and a difficult to enter license number.
F/OSS changes the game completely and if it were to succeed Microsoft just couldn't fight back, there's no way they'd survive selling mice, consoles and 'Office Productivity Software'. It would be the death of the software giant.
My Fedora and Ubuntu household has nothing but Microsoft mice (three) and Microsoft keyboards (two). Those are the few products that MS markets that are really, really good. What else does MS market that I would love to pay for and but? MS Office. I am sorry, but OOo just does not compete. I would happily pay $100 for MS Office if it supported ODF (for no vendor lockin) and ran on Ubuntu.
It's called "Minimum font size". Both Firefox and Safari have easily accessible preference settings for this.
My point was that I don't trust web designers to use responsible font sizes, now I have to trust them to use responsible font faces? I _don't_ want artistic fonts, I want to be able to read the text.
This means the birth of the Crab Nebula was in the year 5446 BC. Mankind witnessed it 6,500 years later.
As it was outside of our lightcone it cannot be said to have happened at that time for earthlings. Only when it enters our lightcone can the event be said to have happened. It's a tough concept, but time is _not_ the universal constant, the speed of light is.
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We see statistics coming out of America like 92% of Americans believe in a God. This speaks volumes.
I believe in God you twit. You atheists are worse than the religious nuts, oh wait, you _are_ religious nuts! I'm not American, though, so I must be substandard anyway. Me and my silly God, that is.
I stand corrected by your pedantical hairsplitting
There was no pedantics or hairsplitting involved. You just changed your criteria after the fact when you were pointed out to be wrong. Besides bnetd isn't even just the only example one can come up with for end-users being sued for breaking a EULA.
If you consider reverse engineering to be end-user behaviour, then I am wrong.
Good to admit you are wrong. Secondly, the people reverse engineering Battle.Net were end users of the actual Blizzard software.
Of course, I will not even try to convince a /. autistic what an end-user is.
Ooooh, ice burn! Man, I'm going to go cry to my mommy that some basement-dwelling troll burned me on ./.
I didn't add criteria, I still insist that end users do not reverse engineer their software. Adding the word "typical" is changing my criteria? I have no need to argue or try to convince you otherwise.
I understand that in your narrow /. world end users reverse engineer their software. I said it before: you are right and I am wrong. I have no interest in arguing about corner cases with you.
I stand corrected by your pedantical hairsplitting. If you consider reverse engineering to be end-user behaviour, then I am wrong. Of course, I will not even try to convince a /. autistic what an end-user is.
I would hardly call "bnetd" typical end-user behaviour. Maybe the typical /. end user reverse engineers his software, but most end users do not.
I can't believe eula's are even legal (at all).
Then you obviously don't understand the purpose of the EULA. The EULA is not legal protection in the sense that the company will sue the end user for breach. It is for legal protection in case one makes a claim against the company that they took no measures to protect A, B, and C. In other words, it is a defensive measure, not an offensive measure. It just reads as offensive because, well, we all know what the best defense is...
Yes, different cause, but same effect.
Other than the fact that the size of the Earth appears as three times the size of the sun on the moon, I did know that. I mentioned that it was a similar effect, not the same cause. In Hebrew you could call the effect a "diamond ring" as the sun looks like a diamond and the moon completes the ring.
Google has a massive farm of computers that they leverage. Microsoft wants one too.
Microsoft could just pay the Russian botnet herders for one. Oh, wait...
It's even better than a solar eclipse as seen from earth because the earth's atmosphere diffracts light from the sun, causing a ring of light to appear around the planet. Very cool.
The moon's craters and mountains cause the same effect in lunar solar eclipses, no?
Actually, I stopped reading about where I started quoting. Maybe I should have finished!
But you can insult me all you want. I don't hate America, and I don't hate Iran.
wiran is a fundamentalist theocracy which is building nuclear bombs and censors its press, jails and tortures political dissidents,
So far this sounds a lot like USA 2000 - present.
Agreed, Windows is better for business, in every sense. That's why I don't recommend it for _most_ users. I want to use an OS that is good for the consumer, not an OS that is good for the businesses supporting it.
I don't use harddrives. I just use crocodiles with magnets stuck to their heads.
(I'll get my coat.)
There's an Emacs command for that...
Can we adopt the _____ as our new group meme?
You must be new here.
The people responsible for shooting the people responsible for shooting the troll, have been shot.
Get 'er a Mac. Or if you'll install it for her, get her Linux.
Ha! My 74-year old mother in law, who thinks that big blue E is the Internet, and does not realize that their exist directories other than the desktop, managed to install Ubuntu herself! Granted I downloaded and burned the disc, but she did the install herself.
The install is no longer the major hurdle in Linux adoption today.
When looking at where else all those unlicensed users would go if they didn't become legal Windows users, Apple doesn't really come into it much. People with illegal copies of Windows would typically either be cheapskates or live in a developing country - neither of which are really Apples typical customer base. Linux on the other hand is better placed to pick them up if MS gets too heavy on them.
I live in a developed country where nobody uses a licensed version of Windows. Even at my university, where we can get licensed copies of Windows for _free_, everyone uses pirated software and the faculty student helpers give out pirated discs. Why? My guess is that no one _respects_ software licenses existence at all. The other reason might have to do with a one-click install vs. a headache install and a difficult to enter license number.
F/OSS changes the game completely and if it were to succeed Microsoft just couldn't fight back, there's no way they'd survive selling mice, consoles and 'Office Productivity Software'. It would be the death of the software giant.
My Fedora and Ubuntu household has nothing but Microsoft mice (three) and Microsoft keyboards (two). Those are the few products that MS markets that are really, really good. What else does MS market that I would love to pay for and but? MS Office. I am sorry, but OOo just does not compete. I would happily pay $100 for MS Office if it supported ODF (for no vendor lockin) and ran on Ubuntu.
Thanks, I will start doing just that. That's what I did back in my Opera days.
It's called "Minimum font size". Both Firefox and Safari have easily accessible preference settings for this.
My point was that I don't trust web designers to use responsible font sizes, now I have to trust them to use responsible font faces? I _don't_ want artistic fonts, I want to be able to read the text.
That should be easy for a nice guy like you. Right?
No. Ask the wife, I go down.
Q: How many Vietnam vets does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: You don't know because you weren't there man!
There was a huge stink on the php list a few years back because of some guy using this in his sig. I think that a few vets actually left the list.
This means the birth of the Crab Nebula was in the year 5446 BC. Mankind witnessed it 6,500 years later.
As it was outside of our lightcone it cannot be said to have happened at that time for earthlings. Only when it enters our lightcone can the event be said to have happened. It's a tough concept, but time is _not_ the universal constant, the speed of light is.
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