It is one standard with one format that everybody down to the lowliest liquor store clerk can remember.
I thought the 'standard' was simply a minimum set of data that must be put on your state-issued ID (biometric data electronically stored in a common format). Not literally a 'one card to rule them all' type thing. The biggest complaint from the state legislatures is that the Federal government is telling the state governments to spend their own money (no federal funding) to modify their state IDs to include this minimum data set. So your NY ID will still look different than your OR ID, they'll just both have common data stored electronically.
If you have it, you don't need it. If you need it, you don't have it. If you have it you need more of it. If you have more of it, you don't need less of it. You need it to get it. And you certainly need it to get more of it. But if you don't already have any of it to begin with, you can't get any of it to get started, which means you really have no idea how to get it in the first place. Do you? You can share it, sure. You can even stock pile it if you'd like. But you can't fake it. Wanting it. Needing it. Wishing for it. The point is, if you've never had any of it, ever, people just seem to know.
no folders (tags instead, useless to a pop3 client)
Wouldn't filing the email in a separate folder on the server mean your POP3 client won't receive a copy? Either way, not having folders on the server doesn't affect your ability to organize into folders locally with your POP3 client.
There isn't this kind of outcry about passports and international travel, and that information is collected by people who don't have your best interests at heart
That's because securing national borders is a basic function of a federal government.
Maybe the enforcing government could also put a marker on the road leading up to the intersection to indicate the safe stopping distance for a car traveling at the speed limit (which would only apply to dry roads, of course).
the same thing applies to people refusing Vista because it contains DRM
At least for me personally, it's the WGA and activation DRM that determines if I'm still allowed to use my legally purchased OS license on my legally purchased hardware.
just wait until you card is dropped from the official support and the old driver stops working with some future kernel.
Open source drivers drop support for devices too. And unless you're a kernel module developer, you're just as much at the mercy of others as you are with a binary driver from the manufacturer.
Besides, isn't patent licensing part of the reason nVidia and Ati won't release fully OSS drivers? I believe Intel has patents on certain memory bus related technologies which are used by both nVidia and Ati.
But what about when some enterprising group figures out the scheme to generate the keys that are used for watermarks, and you get sued for distributing content you never even recorded or time-shifted? I think the only way would be for the DVR unit itself to track every operation relating to the time-shifting software (channel changes, when a timeslot changes what content is now playing, recording, deleting, etc). That data would have to be signed (by your DVR's TPM private key?) and encrypted (by the service provider's public key? then you can't read it to verify it), and either stored in a nonvolatile memory unit or sent to the service provider for archival. I don't really want my DVR keeping track of me like that, much less the company offering the content subscription.
Part of the EULA for Windows is agreeing to the possibility of being audited. The Business Software Alliance (BSA) is the group that usually carries out the audits on behalf of Microsoft (and several other large vendors). So you can't actually use Windows without having first agreed to subjecting yourself from audits. And there is precedent for enforcement of these audits with the aid of Federal Marshalls.
The EULA in question is the one presented by Windows as distributed by Dell. Dell and Microsoft worked out an agreement for Dell to ship Microsoft's product. The EULA that is displayed by Dell's OEM copy of Windows says that Windows can be returned for a refund. Dell could have worked out an agreement with Microsoft to ship a copy of Windows that does not include that term in the EULA, but they didn't. As has been demonstrated elsewhere in this thread, Dell does offer machines with FreeDOS and even Linux pre-installed, so they acknowledge that home customers want computers without Windows. Exercising the right to return the distributed copy of Windows for a refund is not nagging, it's showing Dell that an option they offer on some models is also desired for other models.
Dell sells a product with an explicit offer to return a component for a refund under certain conditions. Did the terms of sale presented when you purchased the Honda/house/silverware offer a refund of the cost of the unused component? If not then you're not provided comparable scenarios. Why does it anger you to hear about customers satisfying the conditions to obtain the offered refund?
I don't think this discussion is about Microsoft wanting to be paid for copies of their software. I think it's about people being able to buy a computer from a major manufacturer without being forced to pay for software they don't want. Serge replied below indicating he was able to configure his system without any extra bundled software, so Windows was the only unwanted software he had to contend with obtaining a refund over. But if you end up with a machine that has $200 built into the price to cover Windows, Nero, and Norton and instead load Linux onto it, why should you only get a refund for Windows, why not a refund for all the software you had to buy?
- Has used windows
- Has previouosly clicked past the windows EULA screen on other machines
So? Previous transactions don't have anything to do with the transaction being discussed
- Did NOT read the EULA this time around
RTFA, he took photographic evidence of going thru every page of the license and clicking the button to reject the terms, which according to the license entitles him to a refund from the vendor.
- Knew the PC he was ordering included windows and ordered it anyway
Because when he asked for a computer without an OS, he was told they wouldn't sell him one, otherwise he wouldn't have ordered it with Windows.
Dell distributes a copy of Microsoft with a license agreement that grants you the right to a refund if you don't agree to the license. Don't be mad at him for exercising his rights under the terms of the transaction.
In other words he's just another annoying eccentric slashdot rodent whining because the PC vendor market doesn't agree with his little closed minded view of the technology landscape where everyone must inherently hate Microsoft and Windows and dream of running three different flavors of Linux in their sleep.
Clearly you're retarded. The PC vendor in question does agree with his view, they offered him a product with an option for a refund of one the components, and he opted for the refund. What are you so angry about?
Dell already offers machines with Linux or FreeDOS, consumer and business class. Look here to start. The PowerEdge server line also offers Red Hat Enterprise pre-installed. Dell used to offer laptops with Red Hat installed, around 99-01, but there was no customer buy-in, so they stopped offering it.
I'd like to see someone press for a refund of all the 3rd party bundled software. Apps like Nero/Roxio and McAffee/Norton/Symantec. Anything that is pre-installed on the computer and neither available freely off the internet or provided by the vendor of a hardware component (all the drivers and helper apps for your sound card or video card). If you're not using the pre-installed OS, neither are you using any of the pre-installed apps, and they all cost money.
Well-well look. I already told you: I deal with the god damn customers so the engineers don't have to. I have people skills; I am good at dealing with people. Can't you understand that? What the hell is wrong with you people?
The mid-term elections were certainly not without controversy. Once again Florida had a few mishaps, the biggest that comes to mind was the district that had 13,000+ ballots cast with votes for Democratic state/local candidates, but no recorded vote for the House or Senate.
would never actually buy RAM from Apple, as they charge an arm and a leg for it.
It's $175 to upgrade to 2x1 GB from store.apple.com when ordering a 24" iMac. A 1 GB stick of PC2-5300 from crucial.com is $178. A 1 GB stick of PC2-5300 Kingston memory is $142 on newegg.com. So prices are pretty comparable.
I have in Intel Mini with the 64 MB onboard GMA 950 graphics. AIGLX runs quite nicely, so don't bother loading XGL. If you use Ubuntu Edgy all you need to do is load whatever compositing window manager you prefer.
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It is one standard with one format that everybody down to the lowliest liquor store clerk can remember.
I thought the 'standard' was simply a minimum set of data that must be put on your state-issued ID (biometric data electronically stored in a common format). Not literally a 'one card to rule them all' type thing. The biggest complaint from the state legislatures is that the Federal government is telling the state governments to spend their own money (no federal funding) to modify their state IDs to include this minimum data set. So your NY ID will still look different than your OR ID, they'll just both have common data stored electronically.
If you have it, you don't need it. If you need it, you don't have it. If you have it you need more of it. If you have more of it, you don't need less of it. You need it to get it. And you certainly need it to get more of it. But if you don't already have any of it to begin with, you can't get any of it to get started, which means you really have no idea how to get it in the first place. Do you? You can share it, sure. You can even stock pile it if you'd like. But you can't fake it. Wanting it. Needing it. Wishing for it. The point is, if you've never had any of it, ever, people just seem to know.
I would have been using Firefox for years if they'd get keychain support working.
Camino uses Keychain, and is an official Mozilla project using the gecko rendering engine.
SMTP and POP3 both require use of secure ports
How is that a bad thing?
no folders (tags instead, useless to a pop3 client)
Wouldn't filing the email in a separate folder on the server mean your POP3 client won't receive a copy? Either way, not having folders on the server doesn't affect your ability to organize into folders locally with your POP3 client.
MP4 is like MP3 but newer and better. The same people that made MP3 made MP4 as the successor to MP3.
There isn't this kind of outcry about passports and international travel, and that information is collected by people who don't have your best interests at heart
That's because securing national borders is a basic function of a federal government.
Also, a national ID card could help in preventing ID theft.
Even easier would be mandating unique IDs for each service provider, and banning the use of government issued ID numbers for any private enterprise.
and sue any interoperable compentition out of existence via DMCA.
The DMCA specifically allows circumvention devices to be used for interoperability between devices.
Maybe the enforcing government could also put a marker on the road leading up to the intersection to indicate the safe stopping distance for a car traveling at the speed limit (which would only apply to dry roads, of course).
the same thing applies to people refusing Vista because it contains DRM
At least for me personally, it's the WGA and activation DRM that determines if I'm still allowed to use my legally purchased OS license on my legally purchased hardware.
just wait until you card is dropped from the official support and the old driver stops working with some future kernel.
Open source drivers drop support for devices too. And unless you're a kernel module developer, you're just as much at the mercy of others as you are with a binary driver from the manufacturer.
Besides, isn't patent licensing part of the reason nVidia and Ati won't release fully OSS drivers? I believe Intel has patents on certain memory bus related technologies which are used by both nVidia and Ati.
But what about when some enterprising group figures out the scheme to generate the keys that are used for watermarks, and you get sued for distributing content you never even recorded or time-shifted? I think the only way would be for the DVR unit itself to track every operation relating to the time-shifting software (channel changes, when a timeslot changes what content is now playing, recording, deleting, etc). That data would have to be signed (by your DVR's TPM private key?) and encrypted (by the service provider's public key? then you can't read it to verify it), and either stored in a nonvolatile memory unit or sent to the service provider for archival. I don't really want my DVR keeping track of me like that, much less the company offering the content subscription.
Part of the EULA for Windows is agreeing to the possibility of being audited. The Business Software Alliance (BSA) is the group that usually carries out the audits on behalf of Microsoft (and several other large vendors). So you can't actually use Windows without having first agreed to subjecting yourself from audits. And there is precedent for enforcement of these audits with the aid of Federal Marshalls.
The EULA in question is the one presented by Windows as distributed by Dell. Dell and Microsoft worked out an agreement for Dell to ship Microsoft's product. The EULA that is displayed by Dell's OEM copy of Windows says that Windows can be returned for a refund. Dell could have worked out an agreement with Microsoft to ship a copy of Windows that does not include that term in the EULA, but they didn't. As has been demonstrated elsewhere in this thread, Dell does offer machines with FreeDOS and even Linux pre-installed, so they acknowledge that home customers want computers without Windows. Exercising the right to return the distributed copy of Windows for a refund is not nagging, it's showing Dell that an option they offer on some models is also desired for other models.
Dell sells a product with an explicit offer to return a component for a refund under certain conditions. Did the terms of sale presented when you purchased the Honda/house/silverware offer a refund of the cost of the unused component? If not then you're not provided comparable scenarios. Why does it anger you to hear about customers satisfying the conditions to obtain the offered refund?
I don't think this discussion is about Microsoft wanting to be paid for copies of their software. I think it's about people being able to buy a computer from a major manufacturer without being forced to pay for software they don't want. Serge replied below indicating he was able to configure his system without any extra bundled software, so Windows was the only unwanted software he had to contend with obtaining a refund over. But if you end up with a machine that has $200 built into the price to cover Windows, Nero, and Norton and instead load Linux onto it, why should you only get a refund for Windows, why not a refund for all the software you had to buy?
awesome, the default Windows configuration is $170 more than the default RHEL 4 configuration.
- Has used windows
- Has previouosly clicked past the windows EULA screen on other machines
So? Previous transactions don't have anything to do with the transaction being discussed
- Did NOT read the EULA this time around
RTFA, he took photographic evidence of going thru every page of the license and clicking the button to reject the terms, which according to the license entitles him to a refund from the vendor.
- Knew the PC he was ordering included windows and ordered it anyway
Because when he asked for a computer without an OS, he was told they wouldn't sell him one, otherwise he wouldn't have ordered it with Windows.
Dell distributes a copy of Microsoft with a license agreement that grants you the right to a refund if you don't agree to the license. Don't be mad at him for exercising his rights under the terms of the transaction.
In other words he's just another annoying eccentric slashdot rodent whining because the PC vendor market doesn't agree with his little closed minded view of the technology landscape where everyone must inherently hate Microsoft and Windows and dream of running three different flavors of Linux in their sleep.
Clearly you're retarded. The PC vendor in question does agree with his view, they offered him a product with an option for a refund of one the components, and he opted for the refund. What are you so angry about?
Dell already offers machines with Linux or FreeDOS, consumer and business class. Look here to start. The PowerEdge server line also offers Red Hat Enterprise pre-installed. Dell used to offer laptops with Red Hat installed, around 99-01, but there was no customer buy-in, so they stopped offering it.
I'd like to see someone press for a refund of all the 3rd party bundled software. Apps like Nero/Roxio and McAffee/Norton/Symantec. Anything that is pre-installed on the computer and neither available freely off the internet or provided by the vendor of a hardware component (all the drivers and helper apps for your sound card or video card). If you're not using the pre-installed OS, neither are you using any of the pre-installed apps, and they all cost money.
Well-well look. I already told you: I deal with the god damn customers so the engineers don't have to. I have people skills; I am good at dealing with people. Can't you understand that? What the hell is wrong with you people?
The mid-term elections were certainly not without controversy. Once again Florida had a few mishaps, the biggest that comes to mind was the district that had 13,000+ ballots cast with votes for Democratic state/local candidates, but no recorded vote for the House or Senate.
In 2003, the CEO of Deibold "committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year."
would never actually buy RAM from Apple, as they charge an arm and a leg for it.
It's $175 to upgrade to 2x1 GB from store.apple.com when ordering a 24" iMac. A 1 GB stick of PC2-5300 from crucial.com is $178. A 1 GB stick of PC2-5300 Kingston memory is $142 on newegg.com. So prices are pretty comparable.
I have in Intel Mini with the 64 MB onboard GMA 950 graphics. AIGLX runs quite nicely, so don't bother loading XGL. If you use Ubuntu Edgy all you need to do is load whatever compositing window manager you prefer.